Bravely tackling one of the most hallowed of all American novels, as his second. But as Robert becomes unhinged by his obsession with Brett, he starts a brawl. In all probability, many bristling book-readers are going to march into the Roxy for the screen version of Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' with a unanimous, grim conviction it had better be good. When Robert Cohn boxes at Princeton, he refuses to fight anyone outside of the ring. Rules, tactics, and victories in the form of insults or emotional injuries become "moves" in the game of social power. And the male characters' competition over the careless, rule-breaking Brett turns them into sportsmen of sorts, competitors for her love. A man is killed by a bull outside Pedro Romero's bullfight. Violence that should be controlled becomes threatening. Sports have rules, and those rules define winners and losers, define beauty and skill.Īnd yet, like World War I erupting from the carefully balanced tensions of Europe in the 1910s, for the characters of The Sun Also Rises, the matches spill over from the arenas onto the streets of Pamplona, into the bars and cafes. Sport provides an escape for Jake and his friends from what they see as the meaninglessness of the rest of their lives. Whenever a trip is proposed, there is usually some sporting reason- Jake and Bill Gorton travel to Spain to fish, and the whole crowd is drawn to the bullfighting at the fiesta. From Robert Cohn the boxer to Pedro Romero the bullfighter, the characters of The Sun Also Rises compete and combat in various sporting events for honor and to impress the insatiable Brett.
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