The Sun Also Rises (1926) (edit title/settings)

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• Monsieur Barnes: First-person narrator, friends with Robert and loves Brett
• Lady Brett Ashley: to be married to Mike Campbell, also loves Jake and likes to sleep around with various characters.
• Robert Cohn: Boxer in high school, became a writer and moved to Paris, France with his friends. Loves Frances and wants to marry her. Then says that he dosen't want to marry her and seems to be crushing on Brett.
• Bill Gorton: a writer who is friends with Jake
• Mike Campbell: Brett's fiancé who doesn't like Jake because Brett still likes him.
• Pedro Romero: He is a young very talented bull fighter. He, like most other men, wants to be with Brett. He is very confident and bullfighting gives his life purpose.
• Montoya: Hotel owner and bull fighting aficianado
• Henry Wilson: An Englishman.
• Max Webb: A group of American dilettantes living in post-World War I Europe travel from France to Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. The men in the group (as well as many of the locals they encounter) covet and vigorously pursue the beautiful and promiscuous Lady Brett Ashley, but the narrator, war veteran Jake Barnes, is unable to consummate his desire for her as a result of a war injury that spared him his life, but took his manhood.
• Frances Clyne: in love with Robert Cohn and wants to marry him
• Mrs. Brett: A horrid human being, but a great example of what humans can be when they follow their own selfish desires.
• Harvey Stone: Add a description of this character.
• Mrs. Braddocks
• Marcial Lalanda
• Zizi
• Krum
• Hubert
• Henry
• Jacob Barnes: Jake is the protagonist. He's a veteran from WWI and was affected by the war physically and emotionally. He suffered an injury that stops him from being able to be with Lady Ashley. Also his life is full of wandering and drinking. Though his life is a little more stable than his friends, he still struggles. He is revealed a lot by his thoughts and what he says about other people.
• Lady Ashley: A young beautiful woman whose life is also very unfulfilling and full of drinking and affairs. She doesn't want to commit to any man, but she does have affairs with very many of them. She loves Jake but doesn't want to give up sex to be with him.
• Mencken
• Woolsey
• Bryan
• Edna
• Bill Gorton
• George
• Count Mippipopolous
• Braddocks
• Lett
• Madame Lecomte
• Georgette
• Madame Lavigne
• Ledoux
• Don Manuel Orquito
• Belmonte
• Spider Kelly

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• “Romero had the old thing, the holding of his purity of line through the maximum of exposure, while he dominated the bull by making him realize he was unattainable, while he prepared him for the killing”

• “This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.”

  Jake Barnes

• “It's raining hard…And you'll always love me, won't you?/Yes/…And the rain won't make any difference?/No/That's good, because I'm afraid of the rain.”

• “"Have these poisonous things been paid for"”

  Lady-Brett-Ashley

• “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

  Count Mippipopolous

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• Enjoying living was learning to get your money’s worth and knowing when you had it.

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• You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”

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• “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”

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• “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

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• Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.

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• It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

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• I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together,

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• “Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

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• “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Chicago
• Pamplona
• Paris
• San Sebastian

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Glossary edit see section history

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Helpless: Jake's injury leaves him feeling helpless and frustrated. This is also symbolic of the way people felt after WWI.
• Bull Fighting: The bull fights are symbolic of the way the characters feel towards one another.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Ernest Hemingway (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.52

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics › Hemingway, Ernest
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hemingway, Ernest
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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