What I found interesting about The Sun Also Rises was that the gender roles were reversed. In the novel, it is the men who want to settle down and the woman who has commitment issues. All the men in the novel want to be Brett's one and only, but Brett would rather live the single life being a bachelorette.
Brett loves attention. She flirts with every guy she encounters. She loves to be chased. She loves to have men pine over her, however, the moment that she notices that things are getting too serious, she runs away, leaving the man heartbroken, (no man is a better example of this than Cohn).
Though Brett seems to prefer to "mingle" rather than remain with just one man, you get the sense that Brett's lifestyle does not bring her much happiness.
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From exiles to nomads to diasporas and now the expatriates. It seems terminology used to describe anyone outside their home must be specific. Different characteristics can fall under any of the aforementioned labels and any two terms can be argued synonymous. The expatriate can be considered an exile, having little hope of returning home; a nomad, voluntarily choosing to leave its home and a diaspora, finding comfort with other expatriates. Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises explores the lives of a group of expatriates and what Gertrude Stein termed in the epitaph“the lost generation.” The lost generation is a group of individuals who after the first world war were in a state of disillusionment. All their previous convictions of love and hope and even religion were shattered by the war. Jake and his friends all but one who were expatriates found themselves searching for these old traditions but are unable to attain them as they have been destroyed by the war.
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