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Male insecurity in, THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Ernest Hemingway On the theme of "male insecurity", this novel is rich. Its post W.W. I setting begins in Paris, France giving it the ambience of a very dated black & white film. The characters are all privileged class and some of them seem to have no work to do, unless bar & bed hopping count as such. The novel is in first person. The protagonist and narrator is Jacob Barnes, (Hemingway) who seems to be an American journalist working for a news medium that is never named, except for vague references to a wire service. His sporadic visits ...
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