Article: "THE SALOON MUST GO, AND I WILL TAKE IT WITH ME": AMERICAN PROHIBITION, NATIONALISM, AND EXPATRIATION IN THE SUN ALSO RISES.(Critical Essay)

Much scholarship on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises has examined the significance of alcohol and drinking in the novel. Many critics have particularly focused on how the alcoholic tendencies of the characters seem to be a result of the dissolution and desolation of the post-World War I period. In her article "Hemingway's Drinking Fixation," Carol Gelderman notes the excessive drinking and prevalence of drinking in the novel,(1) and Matts Djos later builds on Gelderman's work in "Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective on the Lost Generation," arguing that "there is a considerable difference between heavy drinking and the ...

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