The Sun also Rises is part of a family of works from the modernist period that deal with the post-war sense, of the generation who experienced World War I, of restlessness and being lost. Hemingway lived and worked among a host of other American, expatriate, modernist writers in Paris, and was surrounded by bold new voices in literature, like Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, as well as cutting-edge painters of the time like Pablo Picasso. This quote, which comments on the fact that despite the passing of generations, the earth and its normal rhythms remain-a new day will always dawn-offering a note of optimism to the novel, that the lost generation may not be lost forever. The other epigraph quote is a passage from the Bible's book of Ecclesiastes, which is also the source of the novel's title, in the line "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down". Stein and her modernist style and values were a big influence on Hemingway, and she coined the term "lost generation" that has come to define the themes of this and so many novels from the twenties. One is Gertrude Stein's "You are all a lost generation". The Sun Also Rises has two quotes as its epigraph that point to some of Hemingway's influences. Hemingway left behind his wife and three sons.
After a final move to Idaho, Hemingway took his own life in 1961, following in the footsteps of his father who had committed suicide in 1928. Hemingway married his fourth and final wife, Mary Hemingway, in 1946, and the couple spent the next fourteen years living in Cuba.
After its publication, he met his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Hemingway finally moved to Spain to serve as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War, a job that inspired his famous 1939 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. The couple moved to Florida, where Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms (1929), which became a bestseller. Scott Fitzgerald and other expatriate American writers of the "lost generation." After the 1926 publication of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, he divorced Hadley and married Arkansas native Pauline Pfeiffer. In 1921 they moved to Paris, where he began a long friendship with F. Afterward, he lived in Ontario and Chicago, where he met his first wife, Hadley Richardson.
After high school, he got a job writing for The Kansas City Star, but left after only six months to join the Red Cross Ambulance Corps during World War I, where he was injured and awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor. Ernest Hemingway grew up outside a suburb of Chicago, spending summers with his family in rural Michigan.
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