The Sun Also Rises was the first Hemingway novel that I've read so far, so the 'iceberg' style that the novel was written in was a little new to me. It was pretty easy for me to get through the sections, but I often found myself having to go back and reread chapters, and every time I did this, I would notice something new that I had glossed over before. In writing my response paper, I went back and reread a few scenes several times and was amazed at how much I noticed after going back.
When I started reading the novel, there were a lot of things that I didn't understand about the characters and the way that they interacted with each other. I actually really liked how Hemingway never goes out of his way to explain his characters, so the reader has to work to understand whats going on. I think that any attitude developed early on towards the characters can be encouraged by the happenings in the rest of the novel because of how much is left up to interpretation. Even the ending of the novel can be taken in two very different ways; it could be seen with optimism, or it could be viewed as Brett breaking Jake's heart again.
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