The Code Hero in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

The Lost Generation

And the Code Hero
As
Depicted in

Ernest Hemingway’s
“The Sun Also Rises”





















Karen L. Patterson
ENGL 441
Professor Wendy Perkins
Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley are characterized as members of the

lost generation. They foolishly set out on pointless trips or get involved

in meaningless relationships to avoid feeling, dreaming or even hoping of good

things. They fit the description Gertrude Stein defines as members of the lost

generation.

Gertrude Stein defined the members of the lost generation as members of a generation that came of age during World War I. The World quickly adopted the phrase as the most accurate description of the generation that passed through the threshold of adulthood at this time working, fighting or dying in the war. The horrific conflict shattered this generation’s faith in traditional values such as love, bravery, manhood and womanhood. Without these va...