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Literary Term #9

Motif

• page 172: "she's falling in love with this bull-fighter chap"


• page 147: "Brett's had affairs with men before"

This motif would be that Brett continually falls in and out of love with men. She says that she wants to marry almost every single one of them. Brett meets them and almost immediately says she is going to marry the man. This seems a little absurd. I just don't see how someone can want to marry someone bases soley on looks. She doesn't know anything about them but wants to marry them. She pretty much is marrying as a result of her sexual desires. From this, the motif of sex comes about. She has sexual relations with, I assume, each of the men, or at least wants to and wants to marry them not for their knowledge or character, but for their looks. This is really showing that marriage is not thought of in high regards. It is not sacred to her or any of them for that matter. This is happening today! When I think of Brett, I can't help but think of celebrities such as Britney Spears. This may sound ridiculous, but it makes some sense. Britney Spears marries people and knows nothing about them and quickly divorces them She then moves on to the next guy she finds. This has happened a number of times, and I see this as similar to Brett. Both of them marry for the wrong reasons and obviously do not respect the holiness of marriage.

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Literary Term #7

Protagonist

In The Sun Also Rises, not only does Jake tell the story, he is also the main character or protagonist of the story. All of the actions or events of the story include him or his thoughts. If he doesn' t know about it, neither do we, the readers. He is involved in the sense that he is either there when it is taking place, that he is in the action, or that he is describing the aftermath of the action when encountering another character. Jake's hubris is that he is impotent. On page 120, Jake and Bill's conversation reveals he is unable to have sex when Bill says "Other groups claim you're impotent." and further into the conversation Jake pretty much says that he became impotent during war whenever he says "A plane is sort of like a tricycle. The joystick works the same way." On page 128, Jake says he loves Brett " 'off and on for a hell of a long time.' ". Earlier in the book, Brett says she she cannot love Jake by saying: "I can't stand it, that's all. Oh, darling, please understand!" and "I have to see you. It isn't all that you know". 'All that' is having sexual relationships with Jake. She cannot love him due to his disablility and this causes a hubris since he loves her and cannot have the love requited fully because of the inablitiy.