nly Jake's physical impotence, butalso the powerlessness of the bull in the face of its imminent cruel death, the characters'barrenness of emotion and lack of sensitivity, their ineffectiveness, alcoholism, andfailure to work out some sort of meaningful "personal philosophy" and an "exhaustedcynicism”. Hemingway shows war wounds as the destroyer of love: Jake pursues lovewithout sex and Brett pursues sex without love. Other themes found under the umbrellaof impotence are: lack of family, rootlessness, nihilism, and alienation, being fromsomewhere else and being cut off from the past. It is the cyclical nature of the novel,heralded in the second epigraph (from Ecclesiastics): "One generation passeth away, andanother generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever . . . The sun also riseth, and thesun goeth down . . . All the rivers run into the sea . . . unto the place from whence therivers come, thither they return again." The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway's best-selling novel and is still a popularbook today. The Sun Also Rises was about the events that were taking place inHemingway's life. The Sun Also Rises can be related to real life by accepting the fact thatit was written from a man's real life experience.The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much apparent. Ernest Hemingway has always been one who is big on the symbolism of night as being bad. To the main character in Hemingway's novels, nights have always been a sign of death, or something negative to happen. Another one of the symbolisms in A Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by jumping off one of the ships the army was traveling on and running away from the army. This symbolism was the water that he jumped into was a symbolism of the new, clean life that he was going to live from now on. At this time, Henry goes off and finds his wife to be.The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer, thegood and bad hills...
