arried four times and spent much of his time writing, drinking, and watching bull fights in Spain. His first major book, The Sun Also Rises, was heavily influenced by these experiences. ("True Grit," 145)
             To examine Ernest Hemingway himself, one must look at the plot and characters of The Sun Also Rises. The story begins in Paris, as we are introduced to Jake Barnes, a character who is heavily based on the real-life Ernest Hemingway. Both people served time in the war, only to be lost afterwards and move to Paris, as well as seen sights in the war which left them emotionally scarred and forced to sleep with the lights on. (Dunn) Jake Barnes was also left unable to make love after the war, and never have a relationship with the one woman who loved him, and he loved back: Lady Ashley. (Dunn) Jake, along with his friends Bill Gorton and Robert Cohn, plan a trip with Lady Brett Ashley and her fiancé, Mike Campbell, to Spain to see the bull fights. There, they participate in the ten-day fiesta, living on borrowed money and drinking intensely. Eventually, everyone's true feelings about each other come out as Robert Cohn, the Jewish boxer who was given the easy life by his wealthy parents, becomes the outsider and Lady Ashley breaks up with Mike Campbell for a new fling with a Spanish bullfighter. The entire book becomes a collective story about how this "lost" generation strives to become accepted in Europe. (Hemingway)
             The Sun Also Rises displays Jazz Age Europe as a place of fickle relationships, flimsy careers, and frequent corruption. Lady Brett Ashley, for example, has several intimate relationships throughout the course of the book; with Jake, Robert Cohn, her own fiancé, and even a Spanish bullfighter, Pedro Romero. Historically, this shows how many women were just as lost, or more, as the men. Men were lost because they had no career to return
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