Love as Only Wishful Thinking
Throughout Ernest Hemingway's novel, "The Sun Also Rises", the theme of escaping reality by engaging in excessive drinking and casual sex occurs repeatedly. The new attitudes of The Lost Generation manifested in Lady Brett Ashley, who goes through many meaningless relations with several male characters throughout the novel. Indirectly, Brett managed to reject all those with whom she engaged in a relationship. Her rejection to Robert Cohn plays an important role in the novel as a result of the relationship involving a direct rejection, which contrasts that of…
