Comparing The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway And Faulkner

In the novels, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, the protagonists experience a difficult, emotional event. Both Hemingway and Faulkner capture how the protagonists feel unwanted and alone when they go through a life changing experience. Hemingway and Faulkner capture this by using different writing styles to show how the characters cope with their emotions and feelings from the setback. Hemingway writes simplistic sentences to show how Jake Barnes puts off the idea of coping with the loss of his penis in the war. Faulkner uses long sentences to show that Darl Bundren attempts to cope with the loss of his mother, although she neglected him. In The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes suffers from losing†¦show more content†¦Jake decides to focus on the character Robert Cohn and his flaws. In the beginning of the book, Jake introduces him by saying, â€Å"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Hemingway 1). Jake describes Cohn to be insecure throughout the entire book, when really Jake is completely insecure of himself. Jake is not â€Å"impressed† by Cohn because he suffered from getting his nose flattened, which is nothing compared to Jake’s injury. Jake is continuously jealous of Cohn because he has an affair with Brett, which Jake will never physically be able to do. As he compares himself to Cohn, he becomes wrapped up in the drama of his alcoholic friends and forgets about his self worth. Jake ends up having a major identity crisis, trying to be the man he used to be before the war. In As I Lay Dying, Darl copes in a different way than Jake does by attempting to cope with the feelings he has from being emotionally wounded by the death of his mother, Addie. Growing up, Darl never received the proper attention from his mother because he was Anse’s child. Addie explains that Anse tricked her into having a nother child, she says, â€Å"Then I found that I had Darl. At first I would not believe it. Then I believed that I would kill Anse. It was as though he had tricked me†¦ (Faulkner 172). Darl had no control over the abandonment from Addie because was her internalShow MoreRelatedThe Influence of Realism and Naturalism on 20th Century American Fiction2205 Words   |  9 Pagespresenting the basic ideas and of these literary genres, literary examples of each, and then make connections between the two literary movements. Realism Modernism not only depicted American society after World War I accurately and unbiasedly, but also tried to find the solutions brought upon by the suffering created by the war (Elliott 705). The realistic movement of the late 19th century saw authors accurately depict life and its problems. Realists attempted to give a comprehensive pictureRead MoreLiterature and Language10588 Words   |  43 Pagesgrammatical and semantic aspects. 9.2.1 Foregrounding and grammatical form Consider the following examples, both of which describe inner city decay in the U.S. The first is from the Observer (29 November 1995) : ex.9-1 The 1960 dream of high rise living soon turned into a nightmare. In this sentence, there is nothing grammatically unusual or â€Å"deviant† in the way the words of the sentence are put together. However, in the following verse from a poem, the grammatical structure seems to beRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesthat a friend of hers got Giardia and had a bad experience with it. She doesnt want to risk having the same experience. When you hear the details, you understand why. The symptoms are chronic diarrhea, abdominal cramps, bloating, and fatigue. Also, she says, the park signs about Giardia are probably posted because the organisms cannot be killed by boiling. However, she admits that she isnt sure of her interpretation of the sign, and she agrees with Emilio that the nearby stream might