25 Discussion Questions for The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (With Analysis) | Chapterly Blog
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises defined the voice of the Lost Generation, and The Sun Also Rises discussion questions push readers beneath its deceptively simple surface into the emptiness, longing, and damaged masculinity that drive the novel. Whether you are in a college American literature course, leading a book club, or encountering Hemingway for the first time, these questions will reveal how much is happening in the spaces between Hemingway's spare sentences. Published in 1926, the novel follows Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris whose war wound has left him impotent, and Lady Brett Ashley, the woman he loves but cannot have physically. Together with a group of expatriates, they drink, travel, and attend the bullfights in Pamplona, Spain. Beneath the glamorous surface, the characters are dealing with wounds — physical, psychological, and spiritual — that the war inflicted and that they have no idea how to heal. These 25 questions are organized by theme. The Sun Also Rises Discussion Questions: The Lost Generation and Disillusionment Hemingway captures a generation hollowed out by war, unable to articulate what they have lost but unable to stop searching for it in drink, travel, and ritual. The questions below ask...