Ethan's insight on the 20th century

In The Sun Also Rises Brett seems to have a relationship with every man that she lays her eyes upon. Most of these relationships consist of some flirting and maybe sex. Out of all the characters in the book, the reader sees Brett interact with Jake, Cohn, and Mike the most. Here is the case for those three characters on why Brett should marry them. Mike Mike may seem like the obvious choice in this situation because Brett is already engaged to him. Mike also seem totally cool with Brett going around and talking to other men. This works out really well for Brett because she is someone who gets bored really easily if limited to one man. The one major problem with Mike is his money or lack of it. Mike is broke, and by the end of the book, Mike literally does not have any money. Brett is someone who likes to live extravagantly and not having money is a big issue. Mike is also terribly annoying when he is drunk, and as you very well know Brett drinks A LOT. Other than tha...

The narrator of The Sun Also Rises, Jake, is a very hot topic during our class discussions. Throughout the book, we see Jake's perspective on other people, but there is a lot to learn about Jake himself. It seems that the class is confused on whether or not we should sympathize with Jake so here is my case for both: The case against Jake As soon as we open the front page of The Sun Also Rises the book is narrated by a man named Jake. The first few pages are Jake’s narration of his so-called “friend” Robert Cohn. His narration starts off pretty negative saying that Cohn being the middleweight champion of Princeton is not impressive. He also makes an Anti-Semitic joke by saying that Cohn’s nose looks better after it got flattened. A few pages later we see Jake go to a club with a prostitute named Georgette and lies to everyone that she is his fiancé, which indicates that Jake is a liar. Later on in the book, we get introduced to Brett. When Brett enters with a group of men Jake...