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''The Sun Also Rises'' is a 1926 novel by [[Ernest Hemingway]].▼
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▲''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' is a 1926 novel by [[Ernest Hemingway]].
Jake Barnes, American veteran of [[World War I]], drifts around Paris, meeting random people and disillusioned with the world around him. He is in love with the lady Brett Ashley, but then [[Femme Fatale|so is everyone else]]. He is also followed around by Robert Cohn, a Jew with a chip on his shoulder and a weak personality. Jake learns that Cohn is infatuated with Brett and that she slept with him. Jake goes fishing with his friend Bill Gorton in Burguete, and then rejoins Cohn, Brett and Brett's
Encapsulated the experience of the "Lost Generation," who had seen [[The Edwardian Era]] get [[Bolivian Army Ending|mowed down in droves]] by the Great War. Jake in particular carries the Symbolism Ball: he sustained an injury in the war that makes him [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|unable to boner]], representing
The novel is in the public domain, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises and can be read at Wikisource].
Not to be confused with [[Something Else Also Rises]]. Especially given Jake's injury.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Cohn to Brett
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Basically everyone, but Mike Campbell get special mention.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Ohh, Brett.
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]▼
* [[Author Avatar]]: Jake is pretty much Hemingway and shares all of his hobbies and viewpoints
* [[Badass]]: Robert Cohn YMMV
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* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Cohn.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: Cohn.
* [[In Harmony With Nature]]: Bill and Jake seem pretty serene when they go fishing (Jake more so than Bill).▼
* [[The Insomniac]]: Jake ▼
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Brett and Jake. She loves sex. He's impotent.
▲* [[In Harmony
▲* [[The Insomniac]]: Jake
* [[Inspired By]]: Quite a few details were taken from Hemingway's own life.
* [[Likes Older Women]]: Romero, with Brett.
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* [[Random Events Plot]]: The book is really more about a lifestyle than a story.
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Brett
▲* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]
* [[The Roaring Twenties]]: Especially Brett
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Cohn and everyone else, respectively. Yes, even Brett.
* [[A Shared Suffering]]: Pretty much the reason the group of expatriates stick together-- they've all experienced in one way or another the horrors of [[World War I]].
* [[Sleeps
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Jake and Brett.
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[[Category:The Sun Also Rises]]
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[[Category:The Great American Read]]
[[Category:Literature of the 1920s]]
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