cter Jake Barnes impotent in the novel The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway recovered in a hospital in Milan where he had a romantic relationship with a nurse. In 1919 Hemingway returned home at the age of 19, his parents did not understand the psychological trauma he had suffered, and they pestered him to get a job or go to college. In the novel the characters were almost all alcoholics, probly because of the trauma he suffered upon returning home from the war. He became the European correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star and moved to Paris with his wife in December 1921. Hemingway became friends with many other people belonging to a group of prominent writers and artists living in post-war Paris. These people are related to the friends that Jake Barnes has in the novel The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway began to make a name for himself as an author of fiction as well as a journalist. His novel, The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926. The Sun Also Rises contains vivid, provocative descriptions of bull fighting, a life- time passion for Hemingway. It portrays "The Lost Generation's" desperate search for meaning in the First World War. During Hemingway‘s growing literary success, his marriage began to fall apart and he divorced in 1927. He quickly re-married to, a fashion reporter. Hemingway's father, Clarence Hemingway, committed suicide in 1928 after developing serious health and financial problems. In 1937, Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, based on his experiences in Spain during the war, was published in 1940, after he moved to Havana, Cuba. It became an instant success, but he did not publish another novel for ten years. Hemingway then began to suffer from deteriorating health. His heavy drinking began to catch up with him, and he began to suffer from wild mood swings. He entered the Mayo Clinic to undergo treatment for severe dep...
