The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby

ABSTRACT\nThis essay tries to set a comparison in the midst of the twain novels, Ernest Hemingways The sunniness Also Rises and F. Scott Fitzgeralds The groovy Gatsby, which are the representation of the literatures of the disoriented generation. By comparing the two novels, this essay will chiefly discuss their similarities in the word-painting of decadence, solutions, and the arrangement of characters.\n\nINTRODUCTION\nGertrude Stein, an American author who spent just virtually of her adult life in Paris, once told Ernest Hemingway You are in only a lost generation. (Ian Ousby, 1981, p.205) Hemingway was educated by this comment and do it the epigraph of his first novel, Fiesta (named The temperateness Also Rises in America). With the achievement of this novel, the phrase the Lost genesis was accepted by the cosmos as the label of the assembly of writers who were born at the setoff of 20th century and reached maturity during World fight I, much(prenominal) as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, derriere Dos Passos, and etc. Among all the works of the Lost generation, The sunniness Also Rises and The huge Gatsby best show the two main themes of that special era, viz. the anti-war perception and the corruption of the American dream.\nAfter World War I, many writers found the war nothing but a political fraud, thus they were often exiled. They became exhausted with wars and confused about the future. Disillusioned with society in general and America in particular, the novelists cultivated a romanticistic self-absorption. They became precocious experts in tragedy, torment and anguish. Ernest Hemingway wrote his first novel The Sun Also Rises to express the angst of the post-war generation, know as the Lost Generation. The novel tells a romance of a couple that put up a very inappropriate relationship. Ernest Hemingway showed the aimless lives of the expatriates, and expressed the anti-war emotion in it.\nHoweve r, the nihilism and the execrable were only half the pic...