Dom Hemingway's Fiest The Sun Also Rises
The “Lost Generation”, which is discussed by Dom Tomkins, tried to mend their wounds of loneliness with excessive partying and drinking. Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises is a novel that tells a story of the “Lost Generation” and how memories of war weigh heavenly on ones ability to maintain intimate relationships but also on everyday life.
The “Lost Generation” in The Sun Also Rises is about the loss of morality and true happiness. Hemingway’s focus on the absence of the things that define every generation is what causes Jake and the other characters to walk aimlessly through life . Dom Tomkins helps us in understanding the significance of the loss of a material thing by relating it back to Jake’s war wound. Hemingway associates loss with Jake’s
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Robert expresses his fear of an unfulfilled life to Jake,
“I can’t stand to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it’
‘Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters’ .
Robert is exemplifying the main fear installed in the “Lost Generation” but Jake is showing us that one eventually accepts that fear. Jake knows that very few people actually feel that they have fulfilled their life; a feeling that he is content with, and a feeling he wishes Robert would reach. When looking at the question of what Jakes main problem is one may say that it is posttraumatic stress, however the main problem deep inside is his war wound. To Jake his penis is the ultimate physical connection between him and Brett and without it he fears that he will never be able to achieve an authentic relationship with another person. Jake’s wound that he received during war is a memory of pain and suffering but is also loss of masculinity, control and creates a sense that life as he knows it is pointless. Brett’s detachment from Jake throughout the novel allows Jake to feel as though his wound is the main reason for the lack of romantic involvement between the two. A way, in which Jake gains back his control of Brett, although not physical, is setting her up with his friends thru the novel. The bull fighting scenes helps Jake share that intimacy
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All the places that Jake wants to travel with Robert map out the western front of the beginning of war . However, there is a fear encrypted in Jake that limits him from actually getting out there and traveling. This is in fear that the painful memories they have jammed in their minds will come back once again. Jake and Robert are talking about Roberts desire to leave of Paris and travel to South America in chapter two. “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that” It is clear that Jake lives in fear of leaving his comfort zone but knows that he must get out and
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