"The Sun Also Rises"

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This paper examines how "The Sun Also Rises" by Earnest Hemingway is a mental-emotional road map through Hemingway's own consciousness, deconstructed only where his own mind is puzzled, mythological only where his own mythologies lie, and above all, guided by his own psychological and biographical auto-eroticism. It looks at how many of the characters represent various facets of Hemingway's own self and experience and how their inability to form lasting unions may, in fact, reflect his own inner turmoils, a point which is especially fascinating in relation to the events of Chapter 3 and Brett's gender-transformations.

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"If Jake is Hemingway's impotent ultra-male self (he is one of the least effeminate characters in the book, despite his wounds), and Brett is Hemingway's sexually aggressive female self, then the book may take on a whole new and unexpected tension. Jake's willingness to consistently come to Brett's rescue, and his abidingly unjealous love for her makes far more sense when they are seen as elements of the same being. Likewise the pain she gives him by refusing to live with him takes on a far deeper significance, as does the insistence on both sides that maybe they should separate. This putting-away of the inner shadow self is a frequent feature in the dysfunctional mind, of course."

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