Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

When we began reading Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned" I was curious as to how Anthony Patch and Gloria reflected the author and his wife, Zelda. My first post demonstrated the wild couple. For my paper, I wrote a biography of Hemingway through his novels, for his personal life greatly reflected in his works. I've read "The Sun Also Rises" and was delightfully surprised by the information I found concerning the storie's origons. Here is an exerpt from my paper. May you find it helpful when you begin reading Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises."

""During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, the same year as The Torrents of Spring.. “F. Scott Fitzgerald described Hemingway’s book as ‘a romance and a guidebook.’ It also became, in the words of critic Sibbie O’Sullivan, ‘a modern-day courtesy book on how to behave in the waste land Europe had become after the Great War’” (2). The Sun Also Rises successfully portrays its characters as survivors of a misplaced and confused generation.
The material for the novel resulted from a journey Hemingway made with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and several friends to Pamplona, Spain, in 1925. Among them was Lady Duff Twysden, a beautiful socialite with whom Hemingway was in love and the inspiration for the novel’s Lady Brett Ashley. There was also a Jewish novelist and boxer named Harold Loeb, source of Robert Cohn, whom Hemingway threatened after learning that he and Lady Duff had had an affair. Lady Duff’s companion was a bankrupt Briton as is the character Mike Campbell. The trip ended poorly when Lady Duff and her companion left their bills unpaid. The ending of the novel is only slightly more heartbreaking, yet it recovers that precious value which makes life livable in a war-wearied world: friendship (5).""

2.) "Hemingway: An Introduction." eNotes: Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Penny
Satoris. Seattle: eNotes.com LLC, 2003. 2 October 2007.
http://www.enotes.com/hemingway-masters/47396.

5.) The Nobel Foundation. Ernest Hemingway: A Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.
10-2-07.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html