The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway- An Essay

This is the second essay from The Modern American Novel Book of Essays. The essay is in MLA style format. It summarizes as well as analyzes Ernest Hemingway's novel about post-World War I's Lost Generation. In the first 40 years of the 20th century, the American novel attained a maturity and force recognized by the world, symbolized by four Nobel prize-winners: Lewis, Buck, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It began with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, in 1900. Modern literature reflects America's growth in the number of cities as well as the progressive alienation from society, effects of war, growth of materialism, isolation of small towns, and the booms and depressions of the United States.