The Lost Generation in Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises :: Hemingway Sun Also Rises Essays

The Lost Generation in The Sun Also Rises   The book The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway is a better example of what life was like after the war. It was about unrealistic love of a young Lady Brett Ashley, and the post war adventures of Jake Barnes and his friends. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusion, this is the lost generation, and that is exactly what Hemmingway writes about in The Sun Also Rises.   Jake Barnes lived a real casual life style. He is a writer that goes out with his buddies almost every night, and drinks. Oh Jake, Brett said, we could develop had such a damned good time together. His only true desire is a Lady Brett Ashley, he is madly in love with her but all he can do is sit back and watch her toy with the other men. Many time he has purposed his love to Brett, she loves him as well, but provide not have a romantic relationship with him because her sexual desire is too great and Jake cannot have a sexual relatioship because he has no penis, it was castrated during the war.   Jake was also an aficionado of bull fighting during one of his fiascos he and his friends and Lady Brett Ashley went to Pamplona. First Brett introduced her new fiance named Mike, a war veteran and a bankrupt drunk. Mike would later get on Robert Cohns case for bugging Brett and acting like a stalker. Cohn and Brett had a brief turn out in San Sebastian, but Cohn could not excpet that Brett had no emotional feelings for him and that love affair meant anything. Cohn doesnt realize that Brett is a permiscius lady. During that week, Jake, Mike, and Bill (Jakes Friend) relize how much they hate Cohn and they all start to weaken him.   While at the bullfights, Brett falls in love with a young matador named Pedro Romero, Jake helps her get involved with Romero, Cohn finds out and beats up Jake, and Romero, and then Cohn leave Spain and goes back. Brett realizes that she will only do Romero harm and asks Jake to take her away from him. It seems everytime Brett would get in trouble Jake would always come to the rescue, because he is hopelessly in love with her.