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In 1926 a man named Ernest Hemingway wrote a novel that illustrates the effects of war on the Lost Generation; specifically, on one man named Jake Barnes. This novel is titled "The Sun Also Rises". The Lost Generation is a group of people left ....

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... he feels. Jake receives an injury in World War I that leaves him impotent, which is the main reason he has this overwhelming void in his soul. His masculinity is taken, and now he believes he is less of a person because of it. This void is described by critic Mark Spilka when he says, "As Barnes now sees, love itself is dead..." (Spilka,137). The painful discovery, that something believed in by so many is gone, causes Jake to question what is left to believe in. This leaves him with a cold sense of uneasiness, so instead of living with that harsh reality he drowns it away with alcohol. Jake's friend Bill discusses Jake's state of mind ...