The Sun Also Rises

In The Sun Also Rises we are presented with characters how have no direction and are filled with disillusion, all of them members of the lost generation. Within the novel the Hemingway style, so dependent upon the Hemingway ideals of manly honor, is pervasive. This is a testosterone driven crowd, who, when they are not boxing, bullfighting or being unsuccessful with women, are drinking and thinking about one or all of them. That the novel ends, nothing has changed for any of these people or in their own development. They truly are lost, despite Hemingway's extensive use of Christian symbolism throughout the novel. Impotent, disillusioned and lost, the world in which they exist is a veritable wasteland. Hemingway's style has often been criticized as sexist

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