Reaction to The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway was an easy to read/manned up version of any Jane Austen book.  I felt that Hemingway like Austen wrote about meaningless things in a very deep way.  Really, The Sun Also Rises, was all about the between all of the characters like every other Jane Austen book.  Everything in The Sun Also Rises is about the characters, how Jake keeps falling in love with Brett and how she keeps leading him on, or how the group (Jake, Brett, Mike, Bill, and Cohn) uses Cohn as the scapegoat for all of their troubles, taking them out on him.  The Sun Also Rises spends the book building up (or tearing down) the characters.  Very similar to Jane Austen, the difference being that instead of wallowing in sadness, Hemingway’s characters suppress their feelings to come out in violent bursts of alcoholism and self loathing.  Austen’s character’s whine about boys, Hemingway’s character’s whine about the absence of scotch.  But the link between the two remains that both write books about characters that involve conflict, not books about conflict with characters.  Also, Hemingway was really easy to read because it was written in the not too long ago twentieth century, Austen however, writing from the Victorian Era feels like another language.  I relied on SparkNotes to help me out with Sense and Sensibility, due to this I found myself reading The Sun Also Rises at some points in time more for pleasure than necessarily school.  Overall though The Sun Also Rises was a really well written book, the characters weren’t really all that likeable, yet I still wanted to read.  Jake and everyone else is a huge jerk to Cohn.  Yeah Cohn can be annoying but we all have friends like that, we don’t treat them as if they’re not friends though, at least to the pint of cruelty.  I mean a get a jab here and there, but seriously, these guys just bully Cohn into submissiveness.  Individually, still not that great.  Brett doesn’t know apparently how to close her legs, and she keeps leading Jake on, but refuses to go out with him.  Brett finds much pleasure in psychologically screwing with Jake, going out with guys just to spite Jake (or at least it seems like that).  Mike is a huge drunk, and the biggest bully.  He never misses the chance to call Cohn a moron, most likely insecure with himself and how he hasn’t amounted to anything besides Brett’s rich boy toy.  Jake, refuses to tell his war stories, suppressing them to come out in alcoholism and self loathing.  He is always drunk and/or depressed.  He’s also a little too hapless, constantly falling for Brett’s tricks.  Bill, Bill isn’t half bad actually, huge jerk to Cohn but at least other times he provides a bit of comedic relief.  Last but not least is Cohn, who is a little annoying.  Despite these things, The Sun Also Rises was a really good book and ten out of ten, would read another Hemingway book.