Parallels Between The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and The Great Gatsby

Parallels Between The Sun besides Rises by Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald During the decade of the 1920s, America was going through many another(prenominal) changes, evolving from the Victorian Period to the Jazz Age. Changing with the times, the young adults of the 1920s were considered the anomic multiplication. The Great War was over in 1918. Men who returned from the fight had the scars of war imprinted in their minds. The eighteenth amendment was ratified in 1919 which prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transference of liquor in the United States. Despite the eighteenth amendment, most wad think of large, lavish parties when thinking about the 1920s. The nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920 which gave women the cover to vote, a major accomplishment in the womens right movement. Women traded in their long, pinned-up pilus styles for short, stylish bob haircuts. Two great American literary writers emerged from the Lost Generation namely Ernest Hemingw ay and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both men wrote their best novels during the 1920s in which they examined the evils of the time, and the consequences that go with the actions of the characters who acted on such vices. There are parallels amongst the vices of Hemingways The Sun also Rises and the vices of Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby namely excessive alcohol consumption, knowledgeable promiscuity, and the power of money. The send-off parallel between a vice in Hemingways The Sun Also Rises and a vice in Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is that of excessive alcohol consumption. The characters in The Sun Also Rises namely Brett Ashley, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell and Pedro Romero, are residing in atomic number 63 were there is no prohibition on liquor. Whet... ...oney and all the people he know through business contacts and the many parties he had thrown, only break away and Gatsbys father attended his funeral. In conclusion, there are several parallels of vices between Hem ingways The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby namely the excessive consumption of alcohol, sexual promiscuity, and the power of money. WORKS CITED Fitzgerald, Scott F. The Great Gatsby. New York Scribers, 1925. Jones. Interview. Celebration. BBS essence 1160. 10/11/94. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York Macmillan, 1954. McDowell, Nicholas. Hemingway. Vero Beach Rourke, 1989. Monique, Interview. Theme. BBS message 1755. 11/03/94. Rood, Karen Lane, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Vol. 4. Detroit Gale, 1980. Jofsengclarklessaylindasch.doc