Alcoholism in "The Sun Also Rises"

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This paper examines how characters in Ernest Hemmingway's "The Sun Also Rises" use alcohol to ease their pain and forget their problems. The paper asserts that the book is about a group of friends who drink and enjoy getting drunk, but later regret some of the things they do and say. The paper concludes that the novel demonstrates how alcohol may make a person feel good for a little while, but in the end, the pain always comes back.

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"In The Sun Also Rises, Jake uses alcohol to cover up his pain about his impotence. Because of this disorder, he cannot have the women that he truly desires, Lady Brett Ashley, and therefore he is lonely. Jake says: "I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was a good company" (Hemmingway 236). He can control his drinking unlike some of the other characters in the book. This is evident in his statement: "I was a little drunk not in a positive sense but just enough to be careless" (Hemmingway 29)."

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• "Alcoholism". Merriam-Webster Online. March 15, 2007.http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/alcoholism
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