Title
Gender Identity and the Modern Condition in The Sun Also Rises
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Discusses the novel’s revision of traditional gender roles resulting from the unsettled aftermath of World War I. Suggests the novel’s androgynous strains reflect postwar uncertainty regarding the extinction of Old World notions of sexuality, love, and romance, and that Jake’s impotence becomes an allegory of the modern condition.
Date
2010
Pages
36-48
COinS
Citation
Newlin, Keith, ed. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway. (Critical Insights Series). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.