Overview:
Written by one of the most famous authors of all time, “The Sun Also Rises” is a novel which was published in the year 1926. It was written by Ernest Hemmingway, who was also awarded a Nobel Prize for literature. Described by many as Hemmingway’s best ever novel, “The Sun Also Rises” talks about a group of expatriate Britons and Americans, who travel from the city of Paris to the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona.

This novel also made Hemmingway so famous that girls and women all over the country started wearing short hair and sets of sweaters to imitate the heroine of the novel. They also started copying every one of her actions in their daily lives. Hemmingway revolutionized writing in such magnitude that the very style with which magazines and novels were written in the States changed. According to TIME magazine, this novel is amongst the greatest novels in the 20th century.

Summary of the Plot:
The narrator for this novel is a fictional character by the name of Jake Barnes. He is a young expatriate journalist living in the city of Paris, suffering from impotency as a result of a war wound. He falls in love with an Englishwoman named Lady Brett Ashley, who has undergone divorce twice before. She possess high amount of sexual energy and freedom. Because of a sudden turn in events, Jake manages to abduct Brett from a nightclub. Brett confesses that she is in love with Jake, but both of them know, though they never say it aloud, that their relationship cannot last long because Jake cannot satisfy her sexual urges. The rest of the novel reveals how many other men come in Jake’s way and how a person named Mike Campbell finally manages to win Brett over. The novel ends in a rather unusual manner, with Brett and Jake sitting in the back of a taxi in Madrid and discussing how things might have been if she would have remained with him.

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