Ernest Hemingway rsquo s first full-length novel features hard-drinking friends who have recently endured World War I They bear the scars literal and figurative of the war rsquo s devastation and try to cope with it via parties grand adventures and sleeping around Always there is alcohol to numb the pain No one is happy Hemingway rsquo s title for his book The Sun Also Rises comes straight from the pages of Ecclesiastes nkjv In Ecclesiastes King Solomon refers to himself as ldquo the Teacher rdquo He observes ldquo Everything is meaningless rdquo v and asks ldquo What do people [... more]