Ernest Miller Hemingway
born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21st,
1889. As a young man he served as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy
during World War One. Later he transferred to the Italian infantry and
he was severely wounded. After 1927 Hemingway spent years in Key West,
Florida, Spain and in Africa. During the Spanish civil war he returned
to Spain as a newspaper correspondent and later he was reporter for the
US Army. After the war, he settled down near Havana and about 1958 he moved
to Ketchum, Idaho. In 1961 he committed suicide.
Among his most famous works are:
A Farewell to Arms, Death in the
Afternoon, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun also Rises
PLOT of "THE SUN also
RISES"
The story is narrated
by Jake Barnes, an American journalist who has been sexually impotent since
having been wounded during World War I. Jake is in love with Lady Brett
Ashley, who returns his love, but she decides to marry Mike Campbell. Jake?s
friend, Robert Cohn, always manages to go to the same cafés and
restaurants where Jake and Brett go to. When Cohn met Brett for the first
time, he immediately fell in love with Brett. He knows, though, that Brett
will marry Mike Campbell. He always wants to be alone with Brett and so
he accompanies Brett on her journey to San Sebastian. In the meantime,
Bill Gorton comes back from his journey to Budapest and Jake invites him
to go to Spain with some other friends to join the fiesta and the bullfights
in Pamplona. Jake really loves bullfights and he often goes to Spain to
visit them and so he can explain to his friends everything concerning
bullfights and fiestas and he is already familiar to the hotel owner in
Pamplona. He especially admires the young matador Pedro Romero, whose skill,
bravery and moral earnestness characterise him as a true hero. The others
in his group, however, remain true to their drinking habits and so the
fiesta degenerates into a series of brawls. A reason for this degeneration
is that Brett admires Romero and when Mike is drunk, he always gets jealous
and Brett finally leaves him for Romero. Angry about Brett?s seduction
of the young matador, Cohn beats up both Romero and Jake. Now Brett is
so indignant at Cohn that she tells him that he should leave for Paris.
After the Fiesta, Brett runs off with Romero. Jake retreats to a seaside
resort in an effort to regain moral stability, but his recreation time
is interrupted by a telegram from Brett. She asks him to come to
Madrid to help her. There she tells him that she has sent Romero away,
because she doesn?t want to corrupt him further. In a last taxi ride through
the city, Brett and Jake face the hopelessness of their situation. Brett
thinks of the notion that they "could have had such a damned good time
together", and Jake responds "isn?t it pretty to think so?"
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