Millions of people everyday, strive to find their place in the world and where to go in life. Ernest Hemingway captures this struggle through the life of several friends going around the world enjoying themselves in the novel, The Sun Also Rises. Post WW1, the world is left scarred by the horrific events that took thousands of lives and opened the eyes of citizens to a new world. Faced with the ideal of living life, and trying to enjoy every moment with new technology and events led many to party, gamble, and use an excess of alcohol.
Thus, Jake, Brett, Robert, and Bill only party, drink, and have sexual escapades. Night after night, they go out to town and have a wonderful time getting drunk, dancing and meeting new people. However they still yern for something more, something worth living for but none of them seem to know what that truly is. They are a disfuntional group of people who believe that they live for something but are masked by a cloak soaked in wine and liquor and they're drowning at the bottom of the bottle.
