Comparing The Legacy Of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
The Legacy of Hemingway's Words
Almost a century ago, Americans were living what would be known as the best time of their lives. The roaring 20’s was an age where it was expected to go against the norm: extravagant parties thrown at mansions, secret societies of expatriates, and a booming economy to fuel it all. The world has drastically changed since then. Can one still find inspiration to live spontaneously in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? The elegance of the 1920s has passed with time, but the morals of the novel still live on in relevancy. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a complete reflection of his life through experiences, time, and own personal belief that life is to be lived freely.
Ernest Hemingway is undoubtedly …show more content…
Hemingway ended up moving to Paris and settling with his first wife in the city of love. As the couple settled in and Hemingway began writing he became apart of an elite group of expatriates, he exclaims that “suppose you think there isn't any story...it moves along it time. There is a lot of dope about high society. I wanted to show you what a fine crowd we were” (Crouch). Hemingway incorporated different times of his life to the times he spent with these people throughout the novel The Sun Also Rises: “it was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening” (Hemingway 496). This explanation of the expats in real life documents how times were in the 1920s. Hemingway tries to explain the full definition of an expatriate though these …show more content…
He wished to live the most adventurous life, truthfully enjoying what it has to offer. Hemingway believed that being a writer meant seeing, tasting and doing (Reef 49). Hemingway lived his life based off of these words collecting experiences to then write about them: “his passions and impulses influenced what he wrote about war and big-game hunting” (Reef 4-5). His passion for the art of writing is what made him so successful. There wasn’t a time where he was not taking his life and putting it into words. Hemingway uses The Sun Also Rises to speak to the public about his beliefs and morals he gains from these experiences, he writes “I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and i'm not really living it” (Hemingway 38). Though this quote comes from a character within the novel, the character reflects that of him. Being a very noble man Hemingway wished to live by the truth. Within commentary of The Sun Also Rises he writes, “that was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement” (Hemingway 510). Hemingways hunch for the real in life is what made his works so groundbreaking, believing that his writings “should never be tampered with scrutiny” (Plimpton). These beliefs are all taught throughout his novels but they specifically show through\ The Sun Also Rises making it so
Almost a century ago, Americans were living what would be known as the best time of their lives. The roaring 20’s was an age where it was expected to go against the norm: extravagant parties thrown at mansions, secret societies of expatriates, and a booming economy to fuel it all. The world has drastically changed since then. Can one still find inspiration to live spontaneously in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? The elegance of the 1920s has passed with time, but the morals of the novel still live on in relevancy. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is a complete reflection of his life through experiences, time, and own personal belief that life is to be lived freely.
Ernest Hemingway is undoubtedly …show more content…
Hemingway ended up moving to Paris and settling with his first wife in the city of love. As the couple settled in and Hemingway began writing he became apart of an elite group of expatriates, he exclaims that “suppose you think there isn't any story...it moves along it time. There is a lot of dope about high society. I wanted to show you what a fine crowd we were” (Crouch). Hemingway incorporated different times of his life to the times he spent with these people throughout the novel The Sun Also Rises: “it was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening” (Hemingway 496). This explanation of the expats in real life documents how times were in the 1920s. Hemingway tries to explain the full definition of an expatriate though these …show more content…
He wished to live the most adventurous life, truthfully enjoying what it has to offer. Hemingway believed that being a writer meant seeing, tasting and doing (Reef 49). Hemingway lived his life based off of these words collecting experiences to then write about them: “his passions and impulses influenced what he wrote about war and big-game hunting” (Reef 4-5). His passion for the art of writing is what made him so successful. There wasn’t a time where he was not taking his life and putting it into words. Hemingway uses The Sun Also Rises to speak to the public about his beliefs and morals he gains from these experiences, he writes “I can't stand to think my life is going so fast and i'm not really living it” (Hemingway 38). Though this quote comes from a character within the novel, the character reflects that of him. Being a very noble man Hemingway wished to live by the truth. Within commentary of The Sun Also Rises he writes, “that was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality. That was a large statement” (Hemingway 510). Hemingways hunch for the real in life is what made his works so groundbreaking, believing that his writings “should never be tampered with scrutiny” (Plimpton). These beliefs are all taught throughout his novels but they specifically show through\ The Sun Also Rises making it so