ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While following the bullfights across Spain, Hemingway would write “The Sun Also Rises, ” told from the perspective of character Jake Barnes, a war veteran, and inspired by events that transpired during their time in Pamplona with friends.

Detailed explanation-2: -For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940, grew out of Hemingway’s personal interest in the Spanish Civil War of the thirties. While still a foreign correspondent in Paris, Hemingway had watched the Spanish political situation developing under the reign of Alfonso XIII.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The Sun Also Rises” is about the human condition. We seek contentment in things that cannot provide it. By their nature, entertainment, lust, and wine provide only a momentary dulling of the longing we have for something more enduring. The name itself is a Biblical reference to Ecclesiastes 1:5.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hemingway began writing the novel with the working title of Fiesta on his birthday, 21 July, in 1925. He completed the draft manuscript about eight weeks later, in September, and went on to revise it further during the winter of 1926.