was reinventing himself, according to a student of his life and work, Megan Floyd Desnoyers. A Sun Also Rises is the book that boosted Hemingway into the spotlight. This story, which was written in the late 1920s, is a story about affairs of the heart. Not necessarily love, but lust. The main characters in the story are Jake and Brett. Brett seems to bounce from one man to another, growing fond of Jake at one point but sill floating around hopelessly. Jake never really lets go of the feelings that he holds for Brett, even though she is continuously going from one man to the next. At the end of this story, Jake is left with only a hug and a kiss as he gets to watch Brett leave him to go be with another guy named Mike. Hemingway gives the reader the feeling that this is a daytime soap opera, but what makes things so strange is the fact that he pulled this from within himself. The events that take place within this story are, in reality, the same emotions, thoughts and feelings that Hemingway posses. Because of the way he was treated by his mother as a child, he felt that women were the dominant figures in society (cocoa pg.1). Men were considered the heartbreakers, not women, but Hemingway knew nothing of this.In A Farewell to Arms Hemingway gives indications of his state of mind during the World War One period. The main character, Frederic, falls in love with this woman named Catherine, and as the story goes along she becomes pregnant. He gets injured in the war (just as Hemingway had) and discharged. Still in Europe, he moves to a small town way from the war so that he and Catherine are safe. It is in this town that Catherine goes into labor, there are complications, and the baby dies because it is choked by the umbilical cord. On top of this tragedy, Catherine starts hemorrhaging and soon dies. It is at this point that the novel ends with Frederic roaming the rainy streets in complete shock and grief. Comparing the simi...
