the absolute purity of line in his movements and always quietly and calmly let the horns pass him close each time. He did not have to emphasize their closeness." Hemmingway uses this to show that if one is to do something it should be all out, not just the motions, and not just a "faked look of danger". Hemmingway wants the reader to see that to come out of this lifelessness one needs to participate in it, for that is the only escape from the dullness and disillusions. Ernest Hemmingway's novel gave a solution to the people of the Lost Generation but showed that it was a lost cause in reality, ' "Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" ' Hemmingway enlightened an age that had turned its backs on the world and shot its eyes to the light of the sun, for it had set on them at the end of the war. However, Hemmingway showed them that the sun also rises. ...
