Jake Barnes

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fictional character literary character novel protagonist

Jake Barnes is the emotionally scarred, impotent American expatriate and World War I veteran who narrates Ernest Hemingway’s novel *The Sun Also Rises*.

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Jake Barnes canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
literary character ⓘ
novel protagonist ⓘ
appearsInWork The Sun Also Rises ⓘ
associatedWith Lost Generation ⓘ
basedOn Ernest Hemingway ⓘ
surface form: Ernest Hemingway (partially, debated by critics)
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
createdBy Ernest Hemingway ⓘ
friend Bill Gorton ⓘ
Mike Campbell ⓘ
Robert Cohn ⓘ
genreOfWorkAppearedIn modernist novel ⓘ
hasDisability impotence ⓘ
hasRelationshipTypeWith unconsummated romance with Lady Brett Ashley ⓘ
hasTrait disillusioned ⓘ
emotionally scarred ⓘ
stoic ⓘ
languageOfExpression English ⓘ
literaryMovement Lost Generation ⓘ
literaryThemeEmbodied emasculation ⓘ
exile ⓘ
postwar disillusionment ⓘ
the Lost Generation’s aimlessness ⓘ
loveInterest Lady Brett Ashley ⓘ
militaryConflict World War I ⓘ
narrativeRole first-person narrator ⓘ
narratorOf The Sun Also Rises ⓘ
nationality American ⓘ
occupation journalist ⓘ
writer ⓘ
participatesIn bullfighting festival in Pamplona ⓘ
publicationYearOfFirstAppearance 1926 ⓘ
residence Pamplona ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
settingOfActivity Pamplona in the 1920s ⓘ
Paris in the 1920s ⓘ
veteranOf World War I ⓘ

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The Sun Also Rises → mainCharacter → Jake Barnes ⓘ
The Sun Also Rises → narrator → Jake Barnes ⓘ
Lady Brett Ashley → hasRomanticEntanglementWith → Jake Barnes ⓘ
Robert Cohn → conflictWith → Jake Barnes ⓘ
Mike Campbell → relationshipWith → Jake Barnes ⓘ
Bill Gorton → closeFriendOf → Jake Barnes ⓘ
The Sun Also Rises (1957 film) → mainCharacter → Jake Barnes ⓘ