Title
What We Talk about When We Talk about Drinking in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Points to the importance of situating Hemingway’s work within the historical and cultural context of Prohibition and the characters’ varying attitudes toward drink, from Bill’s overindulgence to Jake’s discipline. Reflects on the academic and personal benefits to be gained by students from fruitful discussions of the characters’ heavy alcohol consumption.
Published in
Date
2003
Pages
207-223
COinS
Citation
Hays, Peter L., ed. Teaching Hemingway: “The Sun Also Rises.” Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 2003.