Gender Crisis: The Question of Femininity in Ernst Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

Abstract

The Sun Also Rises presents the severe conditions of the decades following WWI. Instead of depicting an idyllic world, Hemingway realized people’s need for reality. Through the meaningless phrases and the hollowness of these characters’ lives he showed the harsh reality of the world he was living in with all its negative attributes such as the gender crisis. We cannot blame his characters to be too masculine or too feminine because the confusion between these concepts was equally present in the society and in Hemingway’s life.