In Jake’s description of scenes and events, straightforward language is used, with few double entendres or euphemisms. Hemingway use formal language with very little colloquial or vernacular allows the reader to understand the main concepts of the story without having to decode a plethora of complex language. Jake’s questioning attitude and depressed, moody tone is driven by formal, yet simple, diction. The actions of the characters throughout the novel support this excessive drinking and reckless behavior suggest that they are trying to fill an otherwise meaningless existence. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). The opening sentences of the book summarize the tone of The Sun Also Rises, “’Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. The sad, questioning, and reflective tone is also supported by the epigraph from the Bible in the beginning of the book. The book ended on the same melancholy, depressed note on which it began. In the novel, however, this doesn’t occur. The name suggests that for every downturn every time the sun goes down, it comes up. The prevailing longing and sadness in the tone of is ironic, when one considers the title of the novel, The Sun Also Rises. In this quotation, Jake’s inner struggle is tangible, he expresses obvious love from Brett, and he is unable to have a relationship with her. They would look on and on after everyone else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking.” (Hemingway 25) She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. ‘Isn’t there anything we can do about it?’ ‘Love you? I simply turn all to jelly when you touch me.’ The sad, reflective tone can be observed in the passage on page 25: Jake is part of the group, but he remains separate from the others, as supported by the tone. He is deeply depressed since his return for from the war because an injury left him impotent and unable to have relations with the woman he loves, Lady Brett Ashley. He acts as an observer, noting and interpreting the scenery and events around him. Jake Barnes narrates the novel with a moody, depressed, and reflective tone. Soldiers who survived the bloody conflict returned home only to face new challenges and horrors that hadn’t been previously anticipated. The book contains a chain reaction of broken and dysfunctional relationships in the central characters’ search for wisdom, subsequently leading to a plethora of inappropriate behavior that was prevalent in Paris during the early 1920’s and following World War I. In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, a moody and reflective tone with an ironic undertone is used effectively alongside formal, concrete diction, simple syntax and antithesis, expressive figurative language, and numerous allusions to the Bible and irony that allow the reader to experience the tumultuous emotions felt by the characters of the novel and enhancing the theme of the suffering of war that continues off of the battlefield.

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