No Bull in The Sun Also Rises :: Hemingway Sun Also Rises Essays

No Bull in The Sun besides Rises   I finished takeing SAR around ten oclock tonight. I could declare taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, exclusively I couldnt do that. It wanted me to let it out slowly, so I much found myself reading phoebe bird or ten pages and laying it aside to absorb without engulfing. A slice gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York clock Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This book was written, not churned out or word-processed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading.   I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, perchance because it wasnt a point for me in In Our Time, but He doesnt often enough credit quotations with, ,he said, or, ,said Brett, or, ,Bill replied. In SAR it stood and called attention to itself. I wasnt particularly daunted by His not telling me who said what, but it was very...pointed. I setoff noticed around the hundredth page or so. T hen I realized I couldnt keep track of who was speaking. By not nursing home on it, though, sort of (hate to say this) accepting it, I managed to assign reference to whomever I felt was speaking. Gradually I came to enjoy it, in another(prenominal) plane of reading, figuring out from whom words were originating. To not notice it, as if it were one of those annoying three-D posters that you cant see until you make a plan effort not to try and see, became simple - much like those 3-D pictures are once you know what not to look for. (I abhor oddment sentences with prepositions...)   His not telling was heightening to the story. It made things come even more alive. As a conversation that youre hearing at a near table in a restaurant, the exchanges flowed, with me as a more still reader than in a story written to be read instead of lived. It has always been troubling for me to read a book with the companionship that there are things I am supposed to be catching, but not quite. The fish in the pools and the allegory and analogy and symbolism arent