The Sun Also Rises에 나타난 허무와 그 극복에 관한 연구

Abstract

Abstract

The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway, deals with postwar European society and the lives of the Lost Generation in Paris in the 1920s. All major characters are expatriates who have experienced the violence and cruelty of war and lost their purpose in life. In the search for something to fill the void in their lives, they wander in Paris and other cities in Europe. Jake Barnes suffers from insomnia, distressed by his impotence and fails to achieve love with Brett. However, he is getting stable admiring and assimilating to clear and pure nature, going trout-fishing, and swimming in the quiet sea in what is an act of ritual purification and refreshment. It seems that he accepts his personal reality, gets over his situation by stoic control, and sets up his code to live by. Brett Ashely lost her first lover in the war and lost her femininity. Her loss of femininity represents the spiritual damage caused by her miserable past and she lives a decadent life wasting most of her time on drinking and men. In the end, However, her positive qualities are manifested when she sends her lover, Romero, away not wanting to be one of those bitches that ruins children as she realizes that she can do nothing but lead him to ruin. it means that she achieves and grows her own moral code. Pedro Romero, Hemingway's ideal hero, has good qualifications and every standard as a matador. Even though he is overwhelmed by Cohn's physical strength in the fight to win Brett, Romero isn't mentally defeated. This perfection is also seen in his love for Brett. He loves Brett without self-loss just as he does in bullfighting. In some sense, he is an ideal hero that Jake desires to follow as a role model. Even if Jake and Brett's love is doomed to be sterile, Hemingway as a writer suggests in The Sun Also Rises the possibility of getting over nihilism and regeneration by presenting Brett's ethics, Jake's stoicism and Romero's existentialism in hopeless situation.