Jake is in love with Brett but cannot make love to her. Jake admits in this paragraph he is in love with Brett, when he says: "In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. Main character Jake Barnes is cynical about life, his own circumstancesįrom that wound, his manhood was destroyed, but he still has physical and emotional feelings for women
Within Ernest Hemingway's novel the Sun Also Rises, the above three paragraphs from Chapter XIV (5-7) illustrate Jake Barnes's efforts to come to terms with the agonizing combination of his lingering sexual desire and love for Lady Brett Ashley, and his impotence, caused by a wound in World War I: destroying his physical manhood, but not his physical or emotional desires.
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