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In The Sun Also Rises,{{sfn|Hemingway|1926}} two themes are balanced. One epigraph,“You are all a lost generation,” from Gertrude Stein, suggests that the narrative is a war novel, although the war seems absent. The other epigraph from Ecclesiastes, perhaps the most secular passage in the bible, includes the words, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth {{pg|335|336}}abideth for ever."{{sfn|1926|p=Ecc. 1.4–7}} This theme, the continuation of the earth, is a metonymy for the continuation of humanity. Linda Wagner-Martin suggests this theme “maintains its dominance” (6).10 Maybe this motif is an attenuated form of providence.

There is a kind of balance in Jake and Brett’s conversation following the Romero ''debacle.'' Brett’s decision “not to be a bitch” represents she claims, “sort of what we have instead of God."{{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=249}} Jake counters, “Some people have God, quite a lot,” but Brett replies, “He never worked very well with me."{{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=249}} The famous ending is poised among irony, ambiguity, and pessimism. Partly a verdict on Jake and Brett’s tragic relationship, it becomes a larger evaluation of life. With Brett, we like to believe we can have “a damned good time;" {{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=251}} we hope the world is a place of order. But in answer, the novel offers only indeterminacy: a delicate balance between covert God-language and hard-boiled modernism. We are left with Jake’s summary: “Isn’t it pretty to think so?" {{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=251}}

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 In The Sun Also Rises,{{sfn|Hemingway|1926}} two themes are balanced. One epigraph,“You are all a lost generation,” from Gertrude Stein, suggests that the narrative is a war novel, although the war seems absent. The other epigraph from Ecclesiastes, perhaps the most secular passage in the bible, includes the words, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth {{pg|335|336}}abideth for ever."{{sfn|1926|p=Ecc. 1.4–7}} This theme, the continuation of the earth, is a metonymy for the continuation of humanity. Linda Wagner-Martin suggests this theme “maintains its dominance” (6).10 Maybe this motif is an attenuated form of providence.
+There is a kind of balance in Jake and Brett’s conversation following the Romero ''debacle.'' Brett’s decision “not to be a bitch” represents she claims, “sort of what we have instead of God."{{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=249}} Jake counters, “Some people have God, quite a lot,” but Brett replies, “He never worked very well with me."{{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=249}} The famous ending is poised among irony, ambiguity, and pessimism. Partly a verdict on Jake and Brett’s tragic relationship, it becomes a larger evaluation of life. With Brett, we like to believe we can have “a damned good time;" {{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=251}} we hope the world is a place of order. But in answer, the novel offers only indeterminacy: a delicate balance between covert God-language and hard-boiled modernism. We are left with Jake’s summary: “Isn’t it pretty to think so?" {{sfn|Hemingway|1926|p=251}}
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