Title
You Give Them Money, They Give You a Stuffed Dog: Modernism and Survival in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Reading the novel’s treatment of trauma through the lens of Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy 1872), Dandeles links the Dionysian chaos of the fiesta at Pamplona to the realities of World War I. Argues that to endure the emptiness of postwar society, traumatized survivors like Jake must shift their values away from the abstract and facile order of prewar Apollonian society to establish a new system of simplified, tangible, and shallow values.
Published in
Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918
Date
2016
Pages
133-143
COinS
Citation
Dandeles, Gregory M. “You Give Them Money, They Give You a Stuffed Dog: Modernism and Survival in The Sun Also Rises.” In Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918, edited by Nanette Norris, 133-43. Lanhan, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.