The Sun Also Rises Unlike many of the books published before the 1920s, in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises there is a distinct lack of the stereotypical nineteenth-century hero figure. In looking for such a hero, the reader expects one character to stand out as the champion of a moral truth or of a standard above mere human existence. Though all of the main characters exhibit the characteristics of a classic noble protagonist at one …showed first 75 words of 2297 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2297 total… rises; it rises on the hope of a hero in each of their futures. Perhaps their seemingly endless cycle will be broken and one of the group can rise out of the ashes to an existence better than the drunken blur that is their life now. As Jake r! ealizes, however, in the final line, the faith in such a forecast is but wishful thinking. But "isn't it pretty to think so?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**