#jake barnes

[itachi86]

That Jake guy was actually a good guy I kind of wonder what happened to him

[awaywardplantagenet]

[thedarkesthistories]

DA Asks: Francis and Julian!!

Francis: What is your personality type + enneagram?

I’m fairly sure my MBTI is ISTJ, and my enneagram is 5. For the longest time I thought I was an ESTJ (and hoped I was an INTJ) though.

Julian: What book are you currently reading + who is your favourite character in it?

I’m currently reading two - rereading the ending of The Secret History (because wHaT happened???) and The Sun Also Rises.

From The Secret History it has to be Henry. From the moment he was introduced, to the last page. Never have I read a book with such a charismatic character, these types of people only really show on tv.

I really like Jake from the Sun Also Rises. He reminds me a lot of Nick Carraway from the Great Gatsby, a quiet observer who is “platonically” fascinated with another character (Nick with Gatsby, Jake with Robert).

[arcticdementor]

Think like an epidemiologist: 1.) Shriek that the flu is much worse than this virus in China. 2.) Grouse about Trump’s raycism for the travel ban. 3.) Deny the effectiveness of masks. 4.) Shutdown the economy and still complain about it. 5.) Assert BLM rioting confers immunity.

Jake Barnes

[spudseybudsey]

Does anyone else feel really bad for Robert Cohn in "The Sun Also Rises"? I know he supposed to be a foil for Jake Barnes and whatever but I felt like he was a sympathetic character...maybe?

[aaaaamh]

On Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

I strongly dislike Ernest Hemingway.

It’s his machismo. It’s his afición for bullfighting and his love for big game hunting. His drinking. Even his accidental suicide, done while cleaning his shotgun. Even his death screams hypermasculinity.

The worst, however, is in his writing (in that particular novel, at least). In the racism, the antisemitism, the sexism displayed. In his characters and what they represent. His representation of fragile masculinity through Jake Barnes, for example. The war veteran was injured in combat and rendered impotent. He is unable to have children, unable to have sex, and is deeply conflicted by his condition. He is made fun of for it, which creates a sense of lack of virility.

But the insecurity could also be self-diagnosed by Jake. It shows in, among other things, the homophobia he expresses at the begining of the novel. Because neither him nor the gay men he encounters fit his ideal of a man. My point is, he (Jake, but also Hemingway) has a clear idea of what a man should be, and it’s not a guy who can’t have sex nor a guy that has sex with guys.

We do see Hemingway’s idea of virility in Brett Ashley’s hypersexuality. Brett is his representation of the 1920s’ New Woman, but without any political involvement: she’s just a sexually free woman. Now, there is nothing wrong with a sexually free woman. It is Brett’s antagonization that bothers me. She is depicted as the troublemaker. She sleeps with every man on sight with no regards to anyone’s feelings. She breaks all the friendships, she breaks all the hearts. Brett exists to portray Hemingway’s idea of a newly self-emancipated woman: merely a stir-causing being that fucks like a man.

So, according to Hemingway, based on The Sun Also Rises, a man should be promiscuous and woman shouldn’t. A man must have sex with women (multiple women) to be called a man. A woman can’t have sex as often nor with as many partners as said man.

I can’t stand him, nor his ideals of men and women. Talk about all this with me.

[hs12]

'Well,' I said.

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

[nublaxity]

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