Blessing's Twentieth Century Blog

    Jake is the main character of The Sun Also Rises , and he's also a very interesting character, too. I particularly find his relationship with Brett to also be very interesting and unique. Jake and Brett's relationship is more emotional than it is romantic. We have Brett, who I think is a very interesting lady, who has a lot of men whom she likes and likes her back, and we have Jake, who seems to never fail to support Brett and help her in her times of trouble. While they are more attached emotionally, we do see them be romantically attached to one another, as we see them hug and kiss multiple times. But going back to Jake being an interesting character, he also seems to display a fair share of sarcasm and satire in this book. The best way to observe this sarcasm and satire is by looking at the context; otherwise, it's very hard to tell whether or not he is being sarcastic.     In the last line of the book, we see Jake and Brett together, and Brett says that ...

    Novels are generally written in first-person mode. This is so that when you're reading the book, you are in the same shoes as the main character, or rather, a character who is important, but is not actually the main character. There are books that exist in which the main character isn't actually the person telling the story, but is another character that is very close to the main character, such as in The Great Brain series, in which the person narrating the book is the younger brother to the person that is the actual star of the book. But first person is used so that you can better relate to the character's thoughts and emotions, and understand why the character acts the way they do. You'll understand their personality better, too.      Instead of using the first-person, Virginia Woolf writes this novel in the third person in such a way in which you can directly relate to the characters within the novel. We have Clarissa Dalloway, who the book is named aft...