Hey /lit/, first time poster and I need help. Just how the hell do I enjoy Hemingway? Am I just missing something? I think that he paints a very descriptive picture but I just don't feel gripped and I'm losing all hope (I'm halfway through The Sun Also Rises).
Read his short stories.
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Clean Well-Lighted Place
The Killers
>>7755724
How do they differ?
>>7755708
The Sun Also Rises is just young people drinking too much - the book
some witty lines here and there
some nice descriptions
the fishing trip part was a fun read and a nice break from the Paris drinks dinner then more drinks routine
a lot of beta orbiter cuck feels
Bret's a drunk slut basically
>>7755708
Hemmmingway is really all about feels in The Sun Also Rises.
Jake is crippled in his ability to love, and the fact that a man who he casually writes off as socially inept as well as physically unattractive (not to mention a sheltered pussy)fucks the girl he loves, then beats up him and his friends, is thiroughly emasculating. It's tragic. Couple that with the tension in his friendships, and you've got a pretty damn good novel.
Anyway, if you don't enjoy the whole treatise on masculinity you won't like the novel. But you should be able to enjoy the comfy setting as well as Hemingway's terse prose. It was revolutionary at the time.
>>7755708
start here
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