The Sun Also Rises
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19
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The Sun Also Rises

by

Ernest Hemingway

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Introduction Intro
Plot Summary Plot
Summary & Analysis
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13
  • Chapter 14
  • Chapter 15
  • Chapter 16
  • Chapter 17
  • Chapter 18
  • Chapter 19
Themes
  • All Themes
  • The Lost Generation Theme Icon
    The Lost Generation
  • Sport Theme Icon
    Sport
  • Masculinity and Insecurity Theme Icon
    Masculinity and Insecurity
  • Sex and Love Theme Icon
    Sex and Love
  • Nature Theme Icon
    Nature
Quotes
Characters
  • All Characters
  • Jake Barnes
  • Robert Cohn
  • Lady Brett Ashley
  • Bill Gorton
  • Pedro Romero
  • Montoya
Symbols
  • All Symbols
  • Bullfighting Symbol Icon
    Bullfighting
Lit Devices
  • All Literary Devices
  • Allusions
  • Foil
  • Foreshadowing
  • Genre
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Irony
  • Metaphors
  • Mood
  • Motifs
  • Paradox
  • Personification
  • Setting
  • Similes
  • Stream of Consciousness
  • Style
  • Tone
  • Verbal Irony
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Hemingway uses bullfighting as an ongoing metaphor for war and the nature of masculinity. The bullfight represents, in part, the ideals of war that were destroyed by the mechanized war of World War I. The… read analysis of Bullfighting

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