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Article: The Pedagogy of The Sun Also Rises.
- Article from:
- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises demonstrates that teaching can be a powerful source of learning for the teacher. Jake Barnes tries to teach Lady Brett Ashley the significance of bullfighting, especially Pedro Romero's, but Brett fails to understand the "course in bull-fighting" that Jake offers. Yet in teaching Brett, Jake himself becomes the learner. In the novel's closing pages, most clearly in the final Madrid sequence, Jake puts into practice the knowledge he has internalized from teaching Brett, becomes the metaphorical bullfighter, and, saying "I'll finish this," ends forever his mutually destructive romantic relationship with Lady Brett.
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