![]() Together, these echo scenes make clear that Jake's Paris holds the key not only to Book One but to the novel as a whole. As the other answers note, Jake Barnes does represent aspects of Hemingway and his life: Hemingway was on the World War I battlefields in France (though as. 'Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.' - Jake Barnes, chapter two, The Sun. I suppose it was funny.' - Jake Barnes, chapter four, The Sun Also Rises. 'I looked at myself in the mirror of the big armoire beside the bed. They show Jake's growing control, his assuming the dominance that Brett had earlier exercised. Jake Barnes, chapter seven, The Sun Also Rises. These echo scenes chart the progress of Jake's evolving relationship with Lady Brett Ashley. The Paris happenings reverberate throughout key scenes in Bayonne, France and Burguete, Pamplona, and San Sebastian, Spain. When Jake leaves Paris, the city is not left behind. Jake has made the French language his own and Paris, a "good town," his home-in part through a job he values and friends he has won through his generosity and warm sense of humor. Although early critics have seen the city as a wasteland populated by aimless and degenerate expatriates, I argue that Jake's Paris is orderly and his life there pleasant, patterned, and purposeful. ![]() ![]() Abstract : Paris, France, the setting of the first third of The Sun Also Rises, is central not simply to Book One but to the novel's entirety. ![]()
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