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Ernest Hemingway is a modernist writer, who writes about the situations that were going on and the rejection of traditions within the 19th century. Modernism occurred in Europe and North america dealing with a mistrust government. Modernist writers were the stream of consciousness. There were social issues that were emplaced such as prohibition in the United States, War which caused soldiers to gain PTSD, social liberty and economic despair. Hemingway “The Sun also Rises” is based on his life and the undergoing issues he faced placing pieces of himself in the characters, also naming it after the place he is buried in Sun Valley, Idaho. Within his life bullfighting, love, money and death ties back to the events in hemingway life. Ernest Hemingway …show more content…

She is a strong independent woman. She exerts great power over 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, she is scared to be by herself so Jake implies “she can't go anywhere alone”. Mike makes a statement to Robert to affect his manliness and also makes Brett look bad while doing it, when he says “Breding be damned...She’s slept with lots of better people than you”(146). Mike and Brett are engaged and are what it seems to be in a open relationship, because mike goes to brothels, where prostitutes please man. As the story goes on Brett finds another love interest in the bull-fighter Pablo Romero. Mike is forced to accept the fact that Brett is into Romero “Brett got a bull-fighter...A beautiful bloody bull-fighter”(210), because he is taking over the spot of being the bull, when mike noticed “she couldn't take her eyes off them”(170), because the interest of putting themselves on the line for death amazed her. Brett cares about Mike, but she also makes it seem as she is rejecting mike for not being wealthy as he used to be. Romero encounter with Cohn lead Cohn to leave Spain and his flight from Pamplona is symbolic of the failure of traditional values in the postwar

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