The Sun Also Rises

Question

Why do you suppose Jake likes to spend time with Bill Gordon?

Asked by Joy F #465624 on 9/29/2015 8:34 PM

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 9/30/2015 11:30 AM

Answered by jill d #170087 on 9/30/2015 11:30 AM

Jake's writer-friend, Bill seems to waste his literary talent on witty, ironic quips and drunken socializing; he may represent Hemingway's fellow Lost Generation writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, or Hemingway's own worst tendencies. Still, he bonds with Jake while they go fishing, opening up to an intimacy unavailable in the city, and at times he seems like Jake's only real friend.