Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises

by James Nagel

Each volume in this series provides an introduction tracing the subject author's critical reputation, trends in interpretation, developments in textual and biographical scholarship, and reprints of selected essays and reviews, beginning with the author's contemporaries and continuing through to current scholarship. Many volumes also feature new essays by leading scholars and critics, specially commissioned for the series.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816173125
• ISBN13: 9780816173129
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Sun Also Rises is a great, meaningful book.

The Sun Also Rises is about a group of expatriated Americans who are in Paris. Jake Barnes has been emasculated in the war, and can therefore not physically express his love toward Brett. Brett is "dirty" and is incapable of staying with one person. Her "true love" died in the war, and she loves Jake, but they cannot be together because she needs what he can't give her physically.

Deeper Meaning?

This book needs to be read more than once. Even though it hurts to struggle through each page, after reading it the first time, i was disgusted that i couldn't find a plain and simple deeper meaning. BUT i read it twice, and it was better the second time. Read a book thats easy to read once, read one thats hard twice.