The Sun Also Rises

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The novel The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, is about a journalist, named Jake, and his friends with their complicated relationships between them and the love interest, Brett. The short sentences try to convey the small talk between them and talking about food or wine while also giving insightful information about the characters. The longer sentences are more about deeper memories or trying to forget their past memories. In the novel, Jake and his friend, Bill, go fish in the countryside of Burguete, Spain while their other friend, Robert Cohn, waits for the others at the train station. While they are out fishing, they bring chicken, eggs, and two bottles of wine so that they can eat lunch while fishing. During the fishing scene, Jake and Bill get really drunk off of the wine, which causes them …show more content…

Bill says that Bryan, him, and Mencken went to Holy Cross together, but Jake adds on that Frankie Frisch went with them. Since Bill already knew where Frankie went, Bill uses: “It’s a lie” which shows that Bill knows that Jake is tryng to lie to him about their past and so he corrected him(127). Jake tries to lie again: “I went to Loyola with Bishop Manning”, but Bill again calls Jake a liar saying that he went to Loyola with Manning instead of Jake (127). Jake was using the lies to try to fabricate the bad memories of their war, but Bill knew that Jake was lying so he called Jake out of the lie. This shows Bill exposing Jake to the truth of him not forgetting or fabricating their war memories. The phrase: “It’s a lie” is shown multiple times in the passage showing how Hemingway uses the small sentences to show bigger meaning. Seeing that the talk about their old war friends was going to trigger bad memories, Jake tries to talk about wine and about how humid it is

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