The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as a useful introduction to Hemingway’s contribution to the modernist movement. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 52-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Ernest Hemingway
• Presentation of The Sun Also Rises
• Summary of The Sun Also Rises
• Character study
  • Jake Barnes
  • Lady Brett Ashley
  • Robert Cohn
• Analysis of The Sun Also Rises
  • Narrative point of view
  • Contribution to modernism

About The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises is widely seen as one of Hemingway’s finest works. Its narrator, the American Jake Barnes, has been left physically and mentally scarred by the First World War, and now lives in Paris, where he mixes with a similarly disillusioned group of expatriates. The novel recounts the group’s trip to Pamplona, where Brett Ashley, the woman Jake loves, becomes enamored of a young bullfighter. Because of its treatment of postwar disenchantment, the novel is viewed as emblematic of the so-called Lost Generation; it is also a key early work in the modernist literary movement and exemplifies some of the stylistic traits that Hemingway’s writing is remembered for.

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential American authors of the 20^th century. Several of his works are now considered classics, such as A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He also worked as a journalist, and was present in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and in France during the Second World War as a war correspondent. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.