A wonderful novel of Ernest Hemingway “The Sun Also Rises” is a great story of the post war generation, or so called ‘the lost generation’. This topic was very close to the writer’s soul because he, in person, took part in those historical events and knew exactly all terrible consequences engendered by the World War I. Probably this personal experience explains that vivacity and reality of his characters among which we should put on the first place Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. We cannot analyse or judge about this characters without retrospection to the whole generation of people of their age of that time. Their problems are not unique and concerning only them but if we have a more profound look we will see that so many people suffered from the same or, at least, similar difficulties and, to some extend, their fate is alike and it is quite symbolic because it shows the devastation that reigned in the post war world and in souls of so many people.
