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time, interesting. Interesting because in a way, it explains to me how someone else sees this. I still cannot agree with them. I cannot condone what they do, and I do not agree with the authors point of view. However, he did teach me. It was really the first book I had read that showed the terrible sides of people, and yet all of the other people around them, accepted them as they were. This struck me because you are taught to behave certain ways, decent ways, and seemingly none of this was true in this novel. Lady Ashley is fickle, and in my humble opinion, terrible to others, treating them like pawns. Jake, is hopelessly in love with her, and is perhaps the only person she ever truly respects. While he sees her faults, he cannot help but love her. In a twisted, and also unrequited way, it’s a beautiful love story to me. As a writer I learned a lot from this book. I learned to take my characters in new directions, and let them be the angry, or mean people that they might be. I learned that dialogue doesn't have to go on and on like some other writers craft it. As a writer, I came away from "The Sun Also Rises," and wanted to write something, not just like it, but something different. Different from everything else, because that is how I view this book; different than everything else. These characters struck me as honestly portrayed. This stuck with me. I read a book that made me truly dislike the "hero" on occasion, and as a writer I didn't know we were allowed to do that! Make your protagonist a wimp, or your antagonist beautiful and fragile. Perhaps it was my lack of knowledge when it came to books that I read this and was amazed by Hemingway's style. But, I have read many a book since then, and I still go back to this one, and beleive I know more because of it.

“The Sun Also Rises,” would be the start of one of the greatest writing careers in American history, and would be followed by many more Hemingway classics. He went on to win the Nobel Prize, and give us such books as “A Farewell To Arms,” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls.” Whether he intended to document the lives of a “Lost Generation,” the readers of the time, and

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