The Sun Also Rises : Moral And Social Values
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In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway describes a
couple who share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other.
This story takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great
hardship. This hardship results in a digression of values both morally
and socially. The lo ....
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.... you get married, you two? (68)² To
this question, they give a lame half hearted awnser which implies that it
will never happen. He is tolerant of her behavior because he loves her
unconditionally and is willing to overlook everything she does. Jake¹s
willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an
indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era
right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the
same: anything g ....
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