Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises : The Novel as Gossip

Adair, William

doi:10.1353/hem.2012.0014

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“…Herlihy (2009) maintains that isolation and foreignness explain much of the characters' baffling behavior, especially Jake's actions. Adair (2012) claims that The Sun Also Rises is a novel of gossip and that gossiping keeps the text of the novel moving forward. Cannon (2012) declares that the novel employs pastoral themes to suggest that recovery and repression are far away from being achieved and that trauma persists.…”

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“I’ve Not Had Much Fun Since the War”: Veterans on the Edge of Homosexuality in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

Alnawaiseh

2024

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This article examines sexuality in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises alongside warfare events and memories brought home from the frontline. This essay argues that witnessing the war firsthand and the unique circumstances from serving on the frontline has the potential to inspire homosexual tendencies among soldiers. This proposition can explain the veterans’ performances in the novel, such as Jake Barnes, Bill Gorton, Count Mippipopolous, and Harris Wilson. In varied places in this paper, the discussion depends on Menninger’s (1948), Fussell’s (2000, 2009, 2013), and Crouthamel’s (2008, 2014) accounts of the influence of modern wars on soldiers’ sexualities. As this current study shows, in an attempt to hide their newly-found homosexual tendencies, the veterans in The Sun Also Rises tend to over-assert their heterosexuality and avoid all nonveteran male environment(s). Reading the novel with Hemingway’s male characters’ performance of heterosexuality and avoidance leads to new ways of understanding the novel as the current paper discusses sexuality in the context of frontline memories and experiences.

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“I’ve Not Had Much Fun Since the War”: Veterans on the Edge of Homosexuality in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

Alnawaiseh

2024

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“…Tomkins (2008) notes that this lack of secure meaning is reflected in the language and the conversation of the characters themselves, which are understated and vague, and in which "nonspecific language becomes increasingly popular among the members of Jake's expatriate clique" (Tomkins, 2008: p. 750). For Adair (2012), the listless, unreliable conversations of Fiesta in fact characterise the text; it is "a novel of gossip" (Adair, 2012: p. 118).…”

Section: The Novel and Its Criticsmentioning

confidence: 99%