![]() ![]() Unfortunately, when they return to Paris, neither goal has been accomplished. Brett hopes to escape from her feelings for Jake, and Cohn hopes to win Brett's heart. Several weeks after meeting, Brett and Robert Cohn travel to San Sebastian together. Robert Cohn is falling in love with Brett.Because of this injury, Brett refuses to be in a romantic relationship with Jake.During the drunken escapades that ensue, we learn a few key things: (Cohn is one of a number of Jake's friends who live the Lost Generation lifestyle.) This is the start of a series of restless wanderings that mark the progression of the novel. At the start of the novel, Jake tells the reader about his friend Robert Cohn, who is trying to convince Jake to leave Paris for a short trip to South America. The narrator of THE SUN ALSO RISES is Jake Barnes, and he is the character who most closely resembles Ernest Hemingway. This novel is a classic example of the writing style that became Hemingway's trademark: sparsely written prose and terse dialogue that introduced a unique, less-is-more approach to American storytelling. Published in 1926, it captures some of the elements that defined the author: the emotional turmoil of life after World War I the lingering effects of a war wound the appreciation of nature and other cultures and the experience of being among American expatriats in Paris in the 1920s. ![]() THE SUN ALSO RISES is perhaps Ernest Hemingway's most autobiographical novel. American Masters | Prairie to Paris | Thirteen Ed Online ![]()
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