Deceitful Love “Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime” (Bette). Ernest Hemmingway The Sun Also Rises was published as a modern novel of disillusionment in 1926 while Hemingway lived in Paris. Throughout The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway weaves the theme of the book around the fine line between love and lust, expresses many forms of symbolism, and intertwines a perfect title with the meaning of the book itself. Grace Hall Hemingway gave birth to Ernest Miller Hemingway on July Twenty First in Oak Park Illinois he was the first of six children.
Hemingway was educated at a public school hen he first became interested in writing (Hemingway, Britannica). Upon his graduation from school, Hemingway took a job from his uncle at a newspaper called the Kansas City Star in Missouri. Hemingway served in World War in 191 8 as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy until he became injured (Kramer). On July 8th Hemingway was injured in Italy by a trench mortar shell that peppered him with more than 200 pieces of shrapnel. Hemingway heroically rescued a fellow soldier and earning the Silver Medal of Valor.
Hemingway later returned home where Eliot met his wife Hadley. Ernest and Hadley aired on September 3, 1921 then later moved to Paris (Pratt). In 1 925 Hemingway published his first book titled In Our Time while he was in France (Hemingway, Britannica). Almost a year later Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises which attained a massive amount of popularity and recognition after its publication. And has been considered as the chief and foremost prose of the generation” (Toke). By the 1 sass Hemingway was a well-known author and somewhat of a celebrity.
Approximately ten years following his climax in fame, Hemingway suffered from both physical and mental illness exulting in his suicide on July 2, 1 961. Sadly his untimely death left some literary works unfinished (Kramer). The Sun Also Rises begins by describing Jake Barnes’ good friend Robert Cohn. Cohn is a Jewish graduate from Princeton University where Cohn holds a light weight boxing champion title. Cohn is portrayed as a boneless, unsuccessful writer that moves to Paris after his first wife runs away with another man.
Jake, a semi-successful journalist and Cohn work little and party a lot. Jake is in love with a newly divorced lady named Brett who is soon to be married off again. Brett shares the mutual linings, but because of an injury from the war, Jake is unable to fulfill her sexual needs. The plot begins to get sticky when Cohn falls in love with Brett as well following a weekend in San Sebastian together. Jealousy affiliates once Brett tells him the truth, but agrees to set out on a trip to Spain to see the running of the bulls with Brett, Mike (Berets fiance©), Cohn, and Bill (an old friend of Sake’s).
Before meeting with everyone else, Jake and Bill decide to go on a fishing trip by themselves where Jake can escape from Brett and Cohn. Jake and Bill’s expedition ends when they leave for a week in Pomona filled tit heavy drinking partying and bull fights. Jake, unlike the others, has a true passion for bull fighting and enjoys the show thoroughly. Besides the obvious awkwardness from Jake, Cohn, and Mike all being in love with Brett, problems intensify when Brett becomes attracted to a young bull-fighter named Roomer.
Cohn becomes obsessed with Brett and even goes as far as to come to blows with Jake followed by beating Roomer to a pulp after Brett runs off with Roomer. Finally, after the group has become fed up with each other they decide to part their separate ways. Jake decides to go to San Sebastian to relax which quickly ends after receiving desperate telegrams from Brett. Jake immediately goes to see her in Madrid where she has sent Roomer away, claiming Roomer was too young for Brett and she was a fool. Ultimately the pair decides that it is best they remain apart due to lack of faithfulness on Beret’s part.
Most people have a basic understanding of the fine line between love and lust, whether it has affected them personally or not. Knowing the difference between being in love and lusting after that person are sometimes hard desperate. In Hemingway The Sun Also Rises the only two characters that re actually in love are Jake and Brett. Before Jake and Brett encountered with each Other, Jake had participated in World War I and been injured in a very sensitive region. This injury is the central reason for Jake and Brett being kept apart.
Sake’s physical inability would result in an unfulfilled physical desire within Brett causing her to be unfaithful to Jake. In the beginning of the book, the reader sees how much Jake and Brett love each other even though Jake and Brett decide it is best they lead separate lives. “Couldn’t we live together, Brett? Couldn’t we just live together? I don’t think so. I’d just trooper you with everybody’ (Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises). One of the central conflicts of the book is Robert and Brutes relationship because Robert Cohn is Sake’s best friend.
Sake’s jealousy and eventual hatred for Robert grows quickly after the truth is revealed about what went on between Robert and Brett, something Jake could never have. “l was blind, unforgiving jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him” (Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises). Though Robert and Brett spend a weekend partaking in activities that only couples ho are committed to each other, Robert is alone and feeling love-struck.
Brett views their weekends together as an adventurous, one time only deal, while Robert is chomping at the bit to marry her. As time passes Brett becomes frustrated with Roberts continued infatuation with her. Robert even goes as far as to beat up a poor young man named Roomer that Brett runs away with. “For four years his horizon had been absolutely limited to his wife. For three years, or almost three years, he had never seen beyond Frances. I am sure he had never been in love in his life.
