Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, has
frequently been treated as a novel of the Lost Generation--a group of young
American expatriate writers living in Paris who came of age during World War I
and established their reputations in the 1920's. They considered themselves
"lost" because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and
they felt spiritually alienated from a country that they considered hopelessly
provincial and emotionally barren. More broadly, the Lost Generation represented
the World War I American generation. This approach to The Sun Also Rises has
become something of a critical clich6. Hemingway described the novel as less
about the life of postwar expatriates than about the rhythms of nature as an
expression of eternity.
多选题
The passage suggests that Hemingway's novel is thought to display which
of the following qualities?
A. An attempt to reconcile nature with the philosophical concept of
eternity.
B. A description of the post-World War I expatriate experience.
C. A diatribe against the organized religion of Hemingway's day.
【正确答案】
A、B
【答案解析】According to the passage, literary critics believe The Sun Also Rises is a description of American expatriate experiences, while Hemingway described the book as being about nature and eternity. Therefore, choices A and B are best.
单选题
The passage addresses which of the following issues related to
Hemingway's depiction of the Lost Generation?
A. Contemporary Parisians were frequently at odds with expatriate Americans
because their wartime experiences were radically different.
B. Organized religion was ill-equipped to address the needs of post-war
America.
C. Post-war Americans sometimes lived abroad as a response to their feelings
of alienation in their home country.
D. Members of the Lost Generation frequently felt lost because they were
unable to afford passage home.
E. Literary tropes such as nature and eternity are more compelling than the
stories of individual characters.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】According to the passage, the Lost Generation specifically referred to Americans living abroad who felt spiritually alienated from their home country.