The Effects of War on People

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One of the greatest American modernist, Ernest Hemingway, was very familiar with the “Lost Generation”. He was able to write about this topic because he was a part of the “Lost Generation”, which was a period in history where the men coming back from World War I were “lost” and were essentially behind in society. Ernest Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises, examines how the male survivors of World War I were affected, and how they functioned in a normal society again.
In this novel, Hemingway shows that men are not the same after they come back from war, by telling about the protagonist in the novel, Jake Barnes, and his drinking problem and how he escaped the traumas of war by drinking. As a reader of this novel it is very easy to figure out that he has a drinking problem because Hemingway portrays Jake by having him constantly drinking in the novel. Although Hemingway doesn’t have him drinking every chance he can, he has him drinking most of the time, which points out his addiction. His habit of drinking can be seen as a result of being involved with the “Great War”. He tells the re...

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