Sense of Alienation in Ernest Hemingway’s the Sun Also Rises

Abstract

Ernest Hemingway occupies a towering place among the twentieth century post-war writers. The alienation in this century was the direct result of World War I that caused an all-pervasive destruction material, spiritual and moral. The Sun Also Rises exposes powerfully the theme of alienation in a very faithful manner. It is an authentic account of the sense of aimlessness; nihilism, despair and, above all, the sense of alienation. The Sun Also Rises presents the story of young people of what Gertrude Stein has aptly called ‘Lost Generation’. It is a group of wounded people, wounded either physically or psychologically as a result of war.