Title
Finding Morality in a Bullring: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Code hero study reflecting on the novel and 1957 film version. Argues that Barnes is Hemingway’s alter-ego, searching for meaning and moral truth in a world devoid of God. Ferrell reads the novel as Hemingway’s personal journey as well as a mythological quest, drawing parallels between Barnes and Odysseus and Ashley and Circe.
Published in
Literature and Film as Modern Mythology
Date
2000
Pages
167-179
COinS
Citation
Ferrell, William K. “Finding Morality in a Bullring: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.” In Literature and Film as Modern Mythology, 167-79. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.