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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
adventurous
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Hemingway was a weak pathetic little fop who's desperate actions to salvage his masculinity bleed through every page he's written. The idol of suburban emasculated men. A rich little shit who got wounded in a relatively safe front as a ambulance driver but gets called a war hero. A big game hunter done from the safety of distance and paid guides. A manlet regardless of height. Just an absolute pussy. My favorite hemingway quote? "Ahhh I can't take it anymore [bang]"
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh Hemingway. For a man who had such a complicated relationship with women, he really does understand them. This made me laugh, it made me ponder what it’s all for, what is intimacy, what is morality
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did! Lots of wine-ing and dining. It made me jealous. I would love to lead a life where all I did was hop about town with friends, eating and drinking and making new friends and experiencing life. Like those nights where you run into everybody and form a big party and you talk too loud and laugh too much and everybody is your best friend. And maybe you split off from the group with one person and you have deep and insightful conversations about everything and nothing at all and maybe you cry a little and you always end with a hug. And you pass out in bed, dizzy with joy and alcohol, loving your life and everyone in it. This book reminded me of some of those good nights. I liked just about everybody. I would like to run into them the next time I'm out. I felt sort of sorry for poor Cohn, though he should have known better. Jeez.. why is this book so good? I can't put my finger on it. Just enjoy.
Quotes:
"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."
"It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working."
"She is the only lady I have ever known who was as charming when she was drunk as when she was sober."
"It is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well."
"I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn - nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody."
"It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."
Quotes:
"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."
"It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working."
"She is the only lady I have ever known who was as charming when she was drunk as when she was sober."
"It is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well."
"I have never seen a man in civil life as nervous as Robert Cohn - nor as eager. I was enjoying it. It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy. Cohn had a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody."
"It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."
This is my favorite book and has been since the first time I read it for an English class I took in school. It’s about the Lost Generation, and I love how perfectly they are portrayed by the few characters in this novel. I love how pretty much nothing happens in the book, but that’s the whole point of it. Jake Barnes has lost his sense of self to the point where he can’t admit his love for Brett. I also like how Hemingway portrays the affects of violence through the different characters: Jake with his war injury, Brett being a widow, Cohn hating fighting but being a boxer. So so good. I think I also like the novel because the reader views everything from Jake’s perspective, but he’s a very submissive character. He never causes any trouble and mostly goes along with everything other characters do. He has a few judgmental thoughts, but they never affect his actions. I can’t wait to read this book again so I can keep on analyzing it.