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Violence
Some
Bullfighting with animal death depicted; bar fights; the wound and its implications
Language
Barely any
Period language; occasional mild profanity
Sexual Content
Some
Infidelity, casual sexuality, and complex romantic entanglements throughout
Substance Use
A lot
Extensive drinking — wine, absinthe, brandy — is central to almost every scene
Emotional Intensity
Some
Pervasive sense of aimlessness, displacement, and masculinity in crisis
What this book is about
Hemingway's debut novel follows Jake Barnes, an American expatriate journalist in 1920s Paris, and his complicated love for the beautiful, free-spirited Lady Brett Ashley — a love complicated by Jake's war wound and Brett's inability to be faithful to any one man. The group's journey to Pamplona for the bullfights becomes a meditation on disillusionment and the Lost Generation.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Extensive and glamorized alcohol consumption
Sexual infidelity and promiscuity
Bullfighting and animal death
Themes of masculine inadequacy and emotional repression
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