If we go through the novel The Sun Also Rises we find that nearly all the characters suffer and are haunted by this sense of alienation. So, a total denial of values could seem to have only one outcome-alienation. It was intensity alone that they were seeking and that they found fleetingly in frantic lovemaking, in death in the bull-ring. Lady Brett Ashley’s final cry, “We could have had such a damned good time together”, reflects her utter sense of alienation. Others in the story are less obviously cut off from normal experiences and distracted by violent substitutes. The war injury results in impotency of Jake Barnes, the central protagonist of the novel. The expatriates’ group takes its stand squarely on the principle of an alienation from the society that had been forced upon it by the circumstances of the times. They are American expatriates who are leading a depraved life in Paris after the World War I. It is a group of wounded people, wounded either physically or psychologically as a result of war. The Sun Also Rises presents the story of young people of what Gertrude Stein has aptly called ‘Lost Generation’. The Sun Also Rises exposes powerfully the theme of alienation in a very faithful manner. Frohock, “Jake‟s physical disability is in large part a symbol for the general feeling of frustration and pointlessness of life”. The story centers on the narrator, Jake Barnes and his love interest, Lady Brett Ashley, with whom he is unable to sustain a romantic relationship due to a war injury that has rendered him impotent. The Sun Also Rises tells the story of a group of expatriates mired in postwar disillusionment and despair. The novel is widely regarded as the definitive account of the epoch that followed World War I. Hemingway knew that the entire might of the social machinery comes into action against the innocent joys and aspiration of an individual’s sentiments, which taken singly, every individual member of the social mass, holds dear to his heart.Įrnest Hemingway‟s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 is one of his best novels. The reality of this world is that faith in religion and God is usually disappointing the prevailing ethics and social conventions are a sham and virtue and morality are mere cloaks for unashamed defiance of all basic principles of honesty, loyalty and righteousness. The Estrangement is conveyed to us through the recurrent imagery of feast that always ends with empty glasses and mopping-off of tables. It is an authentic account of the sense of aimlessness nihilism, despair and, above all, the sense of alienation. The Sun Also Rises exposes powerfully the theme of Estrangement in a very faithful manner. The alienation in this century was the direct result of World War I that caused an all-pervasive destruction material, spiritual and moral.
Ernest Hemingway occupies a towering place among the twentieth century post-war writers.
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