Title
Performance Art: Jake Barnes and "Masculine" Signification in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Close reading of key scenes to highlight ways in which Jake Barnes’s masculinity is compromised by his war wound. Ultimately concludes that Jake occupies a place between genders like that occupied by Brett’s homosexual friends.
Published in
American Literature
Volume
67
Issue
1
Date
1995
Pages
77-94
COinS
Citation
Elliot, Ira. “Performance Art: Jake Barnes and ‘Masculine’ Signification in The Sun Also Rises.” American Literature 67, no. 1 (Mar. 1995): 77-94.