the sun also rises ernest hemingway 1968

They are part of a cafe society in Paris where we meet Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Lady Brett Ashley. This is a story about American expatriates, a group of writers bent on experiencing life and experiencing adventures. And its author and characters are profoundly flawed. So, I rated the novel for its literary merits as I perceive them without reference to the undertone of bias and discrimination. And it hardly feels adequate to 'knock off a star' for such. Racist language and anti-Semitic themes are part of why I struggled with my rating can I excuse those by pointing to the 1926 publication date? In today's world, I find it harder to make that call. That Jake and Brett are in love, and that fate has contrived to keep them apart (that is all I'm saying about that so as to avoid spoilers), serve as the primary thematic vehicle for exploring a time and place and a generation devastated by WWI. But as Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley and their companions in Paris and Pamplona developed, as the tensions of fear, loathing, and longing entwined them in adolescent but also sympathetic tenor, I fell under their spell and enjoyed the narrative ride. At first, I was underwhelmed: short, choppy sentences and unconvincing dialogue. It's so easy to see how Hemingway was said to alter the novel, to take the form into new territory. I went back and forth on my rating of this novel several times.

The sun also rises ernest hemingway 1968