Society tells people that if they go to war and fight for their country, they are heroes. Every generation has war heroes that sacrificed a great deal. Many heroes die fighting for their nation while other heroes survive and have to live with post-traumatic symptoms either stimulated by physical and/or mental trauma. Ernest Hemingway, an expatriate of World War I, recognizes the effects of the war has on soldiers and effectively captivates the heroes’ distress, alienation, and detachment in The Sun Also Rises through his writing style. Hemingway terse and simple, yet effective, sentences captivates people into his novel. The characters in The Sun Also Rises illustrate the Lost Generation who came out of World War I and as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of that brevity, they were portrayed as cynical exasperators that had no emotional stability. Happiness and love deteriorates because of the catastrophe of World War I. The characters of this novel neglect to realize that society is exchanging soldiers’ title from war heroes to “lost” heroes and although they try to suppress and escape reality and drown their sorrows with wine and cynical humor in order to gain a subliminal stimulus of hope, they are all part of the lost generation.
Some war veterans of the lost generation had physical wounds from World War I that affects their lives and impacts their individual character. Jake Barnes exemplifies this tragedy. Jake is the narrator of The Sun Also Rises. As a first-person narrator, he allows insights into his character’s thoughts and feelings as he gives his personal perspective on the actions he endures. This access creates a sense of sympathy because he is war hero who is suffering mentally and physically…
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…ay in their escapism mentality which was habitual for expatriates. The lost generation uses alcohol and fiestas to ease the feelings of confusion towards their adversity and to fuel the hope for escapism.The lost generation were in fact lost. They preoccupy their lives with alcohol, partying, and their ideas of escapism in order to flee from their mental wounds of the war rather than to be aware of their immediate surroundings. Nevertheless, they did not attempt to find solutions, instead they drown themselves with these negatives and force themselves to ignore reality. Fortunately, there were few people of the lost generation who attempted to have meaning in their lives, but overall the war veterans who were supposed to be war heroes and other people after World War I were just portrayed as a lost generation which demonstrates the tragedy of the lost generation.
