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

No Bull in The Sun Also Rises   I accurate reading SAR around ten oclock tonight. I could have taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, however I couldnt do that. It wanted me to bring it let out slowly, so I often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it away to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This prevail was written, not churned out or word-processed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading.   I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, maybe 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 bothered by His not telling me who said what, but it was very...pointed. I rootage noticed around the hundredth page or so. Then I realized I couldnt keep track of who was speaking. By not dwelling on it, though, sort of (hate to say this) accepting it, I managed to assign speech to whomever I felt was speaking. Gradually I came to enjoy it, in another plane of reading, judge out from whom words were originating. To not notice it, as if it were one of those annoying 3-D posters that you cant see until you make a concerted effort not to sieve and see, became simple - much like those 3-D pictures are once you know what not to look for. (I abhor ending sentences with prepositions...)   His not telling was heightening to the story. It make things come even more alive. As a conversation that youre hearing at a nearby table in a restaurant, the exchanges flowed, with me as a more passive 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 knowledge 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