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Maybe it's because I didn't read this book in school, and thus get to enjoy it without feeling trapped and confined to read it, but I thought this was marvelous. There are three main appeals in the story:
1). The emotional inference. No, Hemingway is never explicit about telling you what characters feel. But pay close attention to the descriptions and you're able to "fill in" details like puzzle piecew, and they make for a fascinating study. It's almost like a mystery, but instead of guessing who ...more
1). The emotional inference. No, Hemingway is never explicit about telling you what characters feel. But pay close attention to the descriptions and you're able to "fill in" details like puzzle piecew, and they make for a fascinating study. It's almost like a mystery, but instead of guessing who ...more
It has been suggested that the final chapter of The Sun Also Rises is unnecessary, as the conflicts of its major characters were for the most part resolved by the end of Book II. But most novels feature some sort of denouement (literally, "unraveling"), a dramatization, by the author, of the ways in which the world has been changed by the action of the book
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