Existentialist Tendency In Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

Existentialism is one of the most influential philosophical schools in modern western philosophy. It emerged during the First World War period and revived in the 1940s. It emphasizes the absurdity of the world and the nihility of human life. Meanwhile, it also stresses the importance of individual freedom of choice and action. Since its first outcome, it has had a great influence on a group of writers, including Hemingway.Existentialists' outlook on the world, on life, and on individual is embodied in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, which is an important novel born in the postwar decade. In the novel, the world, under Hemingway's pen, is a chaotic and irrational world, in which people abandon the traditional values and live a painful and nihilistic life. On the basis of absurdity and nihility, Hemingway is deeply concerned about man's spirit of struggle. He preoccupies their struggle for existential values in moral wasteland. Hemingway shares the same views with existentialists in these aspects.In brief, Hemingway is not only the spokesman of the Lost Generation, but also a famous writer with philosophical thought.