The Meaning of Life
The characters in the book "The Sun Also Rises" seem to be drifting on their every whim taking them from America to France and finally to Spain. They do not seem to know what the importance is of their lives or the impact they can have. Everyone seems to be trying to enjoy their time by filling it with empty conversations, lame jealousies, and shaky relationships. They also seem to be deluding themselves of their reality with alcohol. Most of the conversations the characters have is during a lunch, at a club, or in a taxi going from lunch to a club and they usually need to be having some sort of drink so that they can have an excuse for not paying attention to what is going on in the world around them. Sometimes Jake makes statements that seem to progress his character in finding a meaning to his life but then he does things for inexplicable reasons, such as keep the telegram to himself and follow Cohn just to annoy him, and the reader rescinds their hope for progress. There has not been any great progress in any of the characters in the story so far.