7/5/2023 0 Comments The sun also rises cliff notes![]() ![]() But most novels feature some sort of denouement (literally, "unraveling"), a dramatization, by the author, of the ways in which the world has been changed by the action of the book. ![]() It has been suggested that the final chapter of The Sun Also Rises is unnecessary, as the conflicts of its major characters were for the most part resolved by the end of Book II. As the novel ends, Jake and Brett are drunk and riding in a cab, their bodies pressed together by the movements of the car - just as they were at the start of Chapter IV. Brett reveals that it was she who ended the relationship, and that she intends to return to Mike. Though she says she doesn't want to talk about it, she does nothing but talk, and Jake of course listens. Jake faithfully travels to the capital overnight when he finds Brett in her hotel room, she is devastated by the end of her affair with Romero. Soon, however, his relative tranquility is shattered by a telegram from Brett begging him to join her in Madrid. Jake travels to San Sebastian, where he relaxes alone in cafés and on the beach. What's left of the group splits up, with Bill returning to Paris and Mike to Saint Jean de Luz, on the French side of the border. ![]()
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