The Sun Also Rises Literary Devices

The Sun also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway tells a story of a person named Jake Barnes, from Jake's perspective we meet all the people that influences his life. In The Sun also Rises love is one of the important subplot that transcends throughout. All the main characters go to a trip to have fun but one of them starts a scandalous affair with a bullfighter. They all leave the trip with depression and anxiety, the story ends with Jake visiting one of his friend and shows the first time that friend changes. They both agree that even though they love each other they will never be together. The Sun also Rises has many themes, literary devices and elements, that parallel to everyday life, history, situations in the world. The most significant

At first she is a woman who uses more power than the men around her, as her beauty and charisma seem to charm everyone she meets. Moreover, she refuses to commit to any one man, preferring ultimate independence. However, her independence does not make her happy. She frequently complains to Jake about how miserable she is, she claims, is aimless and unsatisfying. Her wandering from relationship to relationship parallels Jake and his friends’ wandering from bar to bar. Although she will not commit to any one man, she seems uncomfortable being by herself. As Jake remarks, "she can’t go anywhere alone" (107). She destroys many relationships and is a threat to some men, but towards the end she makes up her mind not to be that person anymore, saying "I’m thirty-four, you know. I’m not going to be one of those bitches that ruins children." (247). Her obsessive wandering in the last chapters about whether or not she is a "bitch" reaches its culmination here proving that she is finally realizing her true

Throughout the plot the idea of masculinity is super problematic, the insecurity of the central male characters produces an atmosphere of competition, rivalry, and mutual harassment, and we constantly witness petty arguments that are rooted in this sense of challenged masculinity. The novel revolves around several male characters and their various relationships with each other, and with one central female character; Hemingway plays up the tensions of competition and jealousy to demonstrate just how uncertain his male characters are. The shared sense of insecurity among many of the novels central male characters suggests a redefinition of masculinity post-WWI. According to Brett and Barnes it is said that Barnes is "impotent as the result of a war wound", which ruins his masculinity. Barnes not having his masculinity leads him to not have the relationship he wants with Brett. Masculinity symbolizes strength, the leadership, and assertiveness, since Barnes feels that he is missing a part of his masculinity it is almost like he is not up to standard for his role in