Hemingway & D.H. Lawrence

All of the characters in The Sun Also Rises are members of the lost generation. Filled with disillusion and lacking in direction, they stumble around and bang into one another in the face of nada. Jake Barnes is our apprentice hero this time out, and Lady Brett Ashley, a war victim, is the love interest of more than one man in the story. Excessive drinking is the medication most of the characters in this novel use to dull the pain and terror of the nothingness (nada). Jake Barnes befriends Brett, a woman with multiple ex-husbands and current affairs. Promiscuity is another means by which the characters in this novel attempt to escape the nada, but they end up paying a price for it. Lady Brett tells Jake that the struggles in her life are the payment she owes for the hell she has put men through. Jake has broken shards of Christianity throughout his soul, but in his worldview you have to earn your way and nature exacts a price for all lessons, money, love, etc. The struggles one endures do have an inherent value. Jake Barnes decides that the pain and suffering

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main escape is alcohol) the liquid that brings her temporary relief and meaning. Unlike Romero who faces down death and nada with courage and bravery, Jake and Lady Ashley drink to try and escape thinking or talking about it, which is why Jake offers her a martini to stop this particular inquiry regarding God. Only wisdom and knowledge add hope to the human condition, but, as Jake knows and pays, for it there is always some price extracted. In Lady Chatterley’s Lover, we are offered a tale of adultery and love between a married woman and the gameskeeper of her husband’s estate. We see the division between being in touch with one’s conscious mind and not in the contrast between Mellors, the gameskeeper, and Sir Clifford, the materialistic aristocrat. Connie is lonely and stuck in an impotent marriage with Sir Clifford. Sir Clifford is so far removed from his biological drives that he believes economic and class power equate to sexual power. Mellors, on the other hand, is in close contact with his unconscious or natural mind. He is more in touch with his human instincts than Sir Clifford. Throughout the novel Lawrence uses nature and biology as representing man’s true unconscious mind. When men veer away from it, they end
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Approximate Word count = 1314
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)

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