The Sun Also Rises Flashcards
Who spoke first epigraph in Sun Also Rises?
Gertrude Stein
How many epigraphs does the Sun Also Rises begin with?
Two
How did Stein’s quote about the lost generation come about?
When Stein complained to the owner of a shop where her Ford was being repaired and the owner had blamed the mechanic who had fought in the last years of the war and said “You are all a generation perdue”
What did Gertrude Stein say about the lost generation?
That they have no respect for anything and drink themselves to death
What is Hemingway trying to say with his two epigraphs?
That Stein’s generation is fading away while Hemingway’s and the Moderns is growing. Also he implies that Stein’s generation is lot in its own way
Who framed the epigraph of ecclesiastes?
The Preacher
According to the passage from Ecclesiastes what does the earth do?
Continuously renew itself from one generation to the next
What kind of painting was Hemingway immersed in and who did he meet as a result?
Modernist, meeting Picasso and Joan Miro
Who was Hemingway’s first literary friend?
Ezra Pound
What did Gertrude Stein believe about herself?
That she was the only true Modernist writer
Pound provided what kind of model which created greater economy and power in Hemingway’s prose?
Imagist
Where did Hemingway meet James Joyce?
In Silvia Beach’s bookshop
What work of James Joyce’s served as a model for Hemingway’s own short fiction?
Dubliners
The structural choice of the two parts of what work by Hemingway was based on Joyce’s choice of including The Dead to end Dubliners?
Big Two-Hearted River
T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland demonstrates what effects of Pound’s?
His editorial interventions
How is Jake a living embodiment of the aftereffects of war on those who survived it?
Because he is physically and psychically wounded and will never again be able to live fully as a man
Is Mike a veteran?
Yes
How do Jake and Bill Gorton experience a sense of self-renewal?
Through shared experiences of the landscape through which they travel ad the use of rituals as mechanisms for maintaining meaningful behaviors in a world devoid of meaning
In Brett and Mike’s life only what seems to matter?
Indiscriminate sex and alcohol
How is Robert Cohn an outsider?
Because he is a Jew and he didn’t fight in the war and thus lacks an understanding of what it means to live in the aftermath of global warfare
How is Cohn’s lack of understanding evidenced throughout the novel?
By his juvenile affection for a silly romance like the Purple Land which fuels his desire for adventure in South America
What was the state of the reviews for The Sun Also Rises?
Some applauded the artistry and technique of the novel while decrying its subject matter
Poet Conrad Aiken said what about the Sun Also Rises?
That the characters have a sordid story but by circtue of the author’s dignity makes the story telling and intensely tragic
What did Virginia Woolf say about each word in The Sun Also Rises?
That it pulls its weight in the sentence