The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway

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• 1997 - Simon & Schuster - Paperback
• The Sun Also Rises - 23rd Edition
• By Ernest Hemingway
• Used - College Student Owned
• Collectible

Book Reviews of The Sun Also Rises

Book Review: "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." Ecc. 1:2
Summary: 5 Stars

Hemingway's novel is a simple novel featuring several acquaintances and a few weeks of their lives spent mostly in Spain watching bullfights and Pamplona's now-famous Running of the Bulls. The characters are very human and in their conversations Hemingway shows the reader their numerous faults. They are lazy, selfish, untrusting, often drunk, and very shallow. Through each other they distract themselves from finding any deeper meaning in their existences. So they drink, admire the beautiful scenery in Spain, and watch bullfights. Like the repetition of life and death in the bullfights they frequent, the characters half-heartedly attempt to solve their problems and only find subsequent troubles replacing those they do manage to slay.

"Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun." -- Ecc. 2:11

Hemingway has created these characters to be endlessly frustrating and seemingly beyond hope, but in doing so he makes them approachable, captivating, and people that every human being can relate to. "There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins." -- Ecc. 7:20

"The Sun Also Rises" is probably Hemingway's greatest work, and it's main theme is even sadder when viewed in relation to his suicide. With this book, Hemingway left humanity a beautiful work of art, truly worthy of its classic status... but in taking his life, he showed us a very logical end result of characters such as these. Bright, lovable, passionate, and utterly hopeless.

"...for without Him, who can eat or find enjoyment?" -- Ecc. 2:25

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