Landing-nets a small bag-like net attached to a long handle, for taking a hooked fish from the water.įord a shallow place in a stream or river where one can cross by wading or riding on horseback, in an automobile, and so on.įly-book a book-like case to hold artificial fishing flies.
THE SUN ALSO RISES ERNEST HEMINGWAY SPARKNOTES FREE
black slave to be free as a result of living in free territory.Īnti-Saloon League American temperance organization. Supreme court decision (1857) that denied the claim of a U.S. statesman president of the Confederacy (1861–1865).ĭred Scott case a controversial U.S. (1869–1877) commander in chief of the Union forces in the Civil War. General Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885) eighteenth President of the U.S. Stanton's "Lafayette, we are here" (Paris, July 4, 1917). Riff a mountain range along the northeastern coast of Morocco, extending from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Algerian border.Ĭaffeine, we are here. "The Bells are Ringing for Me and my Gal" a popular-song title. Mattock a tool for loosening the soil, digging up and cutting roots, and so on it is like a pickaxe but has a flat, adz-shaped blade on one or both sides. Jake is "frozen," too, only no one awaits his unthawing.ĭiligence a public stagecoach, especially as formerly used in France.
Later, trout (again, a phallic fish) try in vain to swim against the current of a waterfall, and - not so humorously - Jake reads a book about a man frozen inside a glacier whose wife awaits the reappearance of his body for twenty-four years. More black humor: "Get up," Jake tells Bill, who replies "What? I never get up." Of course, it is Jake, not Bill, who never gets up. One of Hemingway's pleasures in life as in art was what we now call "male bonding," and in this case the bonding is poignant, as in some ways it replaces the love that Jake cannot fully express with female companions. Finally, note the gruff tenderness shared by Jake and Bill in these scenes. He has fled America, with its prudish Anti-Saloon League and bourgeois President Coolidge (who famously said "The business of America is business"). ("I'd a hell of a lot rather not talk about it" could be the motto of Hemingway's stoic take on the world, and Jake's, too.) The writer has established, however, that Jake's condition is not simple impotence and that it was caused by an accident.Īnother theme of Jake and Bill's banter concerns the latter's status as an expatriate. (The reference to Bryan's death tells us exactly when these scenes are occurring: 1925.) Do note, however, that Jake's physical condition is alluded to - and quickly backed away from. The joking between Jake and Bill, over breakfast and later at lunch, is certainly believable as such, but it's difficult for a contemporary audience to follow, because the references to Frankie Fritsch and so forth have grown obscure with the passage of time. The writer does so in an extended section, rich with dialogue, that is meant to be funny but has not dated well. Hemingway makes explicit here the themes of irony and pity: the irony of Jake's situation (he is a kind of superman who nevertheless can't perform the most basic of manly activities) as well as the pity we feel for him. The woods outside Burguete where Jake and Bill fish for trout are even more different from Paris, and the sense of tranquility that the fishing trip creates in them and us could not be more different from the freneticism of the novel's opening chapters. In this novel, Pamplona will serve as a kind of anti-Paris, semi-rural and organic where the City of Light is urban and decadent. The author offers it to us by way of contrast to the Paris scenes that went before. This chapter comprises a sort of mid-book idyll. Jake tells us that this goes on for five more days, during which he and Bill hear nothing from Cohn, Brett, or Mike. After napping, they walk back to the hotel. Packing a lunch, they hike together to a trout stream, where they split up in order to fish they meet again for lunch and joke some more, during which the subject of Jake's injury arises and is dropped. After Bill wakes up, they go together to breakfast, during which they joke nonsensically and tease one another. The next morning, Jake awakens early and digs for worms near the inn.
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