Abstract

    The Sun Also Rises describes a group of young Englishmen and Americans wandering about in Paris and Spanish bullrings and don't want to go back to their hometown after the First World War. They spend all the day in love and sex in addition to alcohol, sprees and bullfight. They are typical "lost generation" suffering from the war and behave effeminately and dissolutely. This thesis elaborates on the background of the "lost generation" and expresses that the "lost generation" actually are not lost through analyzing Hemingway's life and his work The Sun Also Rises in which the characters struggle for egress and self-esteem.

Key words:  the Lost Generation; Hemingway; self-esteem; never lost

摘 要

   《太阳照常升起》描述的是一群英美青年在一战之后不愿回国却终日浪迹于巴黎街头和西班牙斗牛场的故事。除了酗酒、狂欢、观看斗牛、他们终日忙于男女之间的情事和性事。他们受到战争和时代伤害之后，变得颓废和放荡，是典型的迷惘一代。本文介绍迷惘的一代形成的背景以及通过代言人海明威在其《太阳照常升起》中人物的挣扎及其寻求自我价值和精神出口来表现迷惘的一代其实不迷惘。

关键词： 迷惘的一代  海明威  自我价值   不迷惘

1. Introduction
    Gertrude Stein categorized the young artists who took part in the First World War as the "lost generation" when she talked to Hemingway in 1924. The "Lost generation" were born between 1891 and 1905 and most of them were white people from the middle class or above with the majority of men. Actually the "lost generation" came into being under the consequences of the First World War and the economic crisis. These young artists were similar in their age, experience, emotion and their works which gradually formed a new school of literature. Meanwhile, the Lost Generation reveals the mental outlook and culture thought which gain popularity in America, even in the whole Europe, representing the thoughts and sentiments of the young men who took part in the war.