What is the significance of the title of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ?

A good title is one of the most important elements of a book. One such title is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The title suggests an importance of time and a cyclical motif. Yet it also has a hopeful tone, focusing more on beginnings than on endings.


There are many cycles in the book and one of the most evident is that of Lady Brett Ashley and men. Brett has affairs with Cohn and Romero in the course of the book. In both cases there is a process of wooing,acceptance and eventual rejection that takes place. It is also suggested that having affairs is a common practice for her, making that a cycle in and of itself.

Show how The Sun Also Rises reflects some of the problems left behind by the First World War .

World War - I undercut traditional notions of morality,faith and justice. The generation is no longer able to rely on the traditional beliefs that gave life meaning. The men and women who experienced the war became psychologically and morally lost and they wandered aimlessly in a world that appeared meaningless. Jake, Brett and their acquaintances give dramatic life to this situation. Because they no longer believe in anything, their lives are empty. They fill their time with inconsequential and escapist activities, such as drinking,dancing and debauchery.

What use does Hemingway make of bull-fighting and bull-fighters in The Sun Also Rises ?

One of the greatest of all American novels is Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises . It tells the story of a group of American ex-patriots living in Paris during the decade following World War I . The story is set in several locales , particularly Paris . Hemingway's description of the nightlife and debauchery of the French capital in the 1920's is probably the most memorable ever set to print . The latter section of the novel is dedicated to the Festival of San Fermin , in Pamplona , Spain and it is another example of wild drinking and sexual tension run amok and highlighted by the famous "running of the bulls" .

Compare and Contrast between the characters of Jake Barnes and Robert Cohn .

Jake Barnes is the narrator and protagonist of the novel The Sun Also Rises.  Around him the story of the novel goes on. His passion, frustration, misfortune, helplessness and even his cursed life touch us and make us sympathetic towards him. The novel is driven by his needs and desires more than those of the other characters. We observe the other characters through his eyes.

Would you agree with the observation that The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's version of the moral wasteland Europe has become after the First World War ?

Any work of literature has a number of themes and this novel The Sun Also Rises is no exception . Both T.S.Eliot and Hemingway were deeply troubled by the events of  the war , and the way that Europe was completely devastated , physically and emotionally after the war . Hemingway himself served on the Eastern Front in some of the ugliest and in many ways arguably the most pointless fighting of the war (in a war filled with it ) . One clear theme is the way the novel explores morality and the various moral codes that the characters in this novel ascribe to . Let us consider Jack for a moment , who describes "morality" as "things that made you disgusted afterward " . He quickly corrects himself , saying that this must be the definition of "immorality" . Throughout the novel it is clear that Jack is more interested in his own problems and issues , and then , only secondly , those of Brett .

To what extent is The Sun Also Rises a fictional chronicle of a "Lost Generation" ?

Basically , the phrase "Lost Generation" describes the generation that came to maturity during World War I and describes the cumulative effect of the new kind of warfare on that generation . The technology involved in modern warfare also created carnage on a scale that had never been seen before . The sheer amount of death and destruction from World War I led people to question the meaning of life .


The phrase "The Lost Generation" was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Sun Also Rises, as an epigraph attributed to Gertrude Stein , who coined this word , which applies to the young people who grew up in the shadow of World War I . In terms of pop culture , the images that usually spring to mind of this group are those of Roaring Twenties : fast cars , flappers and wild parties . The Sun Also Rises is an impressive document of the people who came to be known , in Gertrude Stein's words , which form half the novel's epigraph , as the "Lost Generation" . The young generation he speaks of had their dreams and innocence smashed by World War I , emerged from the war bitter and aimless , and spent much of the prosperous 1920s drinking and partying away their frustrations .

Give an account of how Young Goodman Brown was taken into the communion of evil .

Young Goodman Brown , one of the greatest short stories in American literature , beautifully sketches how a young good man becomes evil and participates in an unholy communion . The story can be read as an allegory centering on the temptation everyone faces and on the human tendency to prejudge others on insufficient evidence . Hawthorne also points out the inherent fallacy in Puritan faith and depicts Goodman Brown as every man .