The Sun Also Rises (Summarized Edition)

Set in postwar Paris and Pamplona, The Sun Also Rises follows Jake Barnes, a war-wounded expatriate, and his companions—Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell, and Bill Gorton—through cafés, trout streams, and the San Fermín fiesta. Hemingway's pared prose enacts the iceberg theory: dialogue and omission carry the weight of desire, impotence, and drift. Framing bullfighting's afición as ethic an...