The Sun Also Rises:

A Hemingway Travelogue
Hemingway and Hadley
• Hemingway married
Hadley in Chicago on
September 3, 1921
• One of the wedding
guests was Sherwood
Anderson, a
mentor/writer friend
of Hemingway’s
 Dateline: Paris, 1921
• Intrigued by
Anderson’s
description of Paris,
Hemingway decided
to move there
• Hemingway left for
Paris with Hadley on
Dec. 8, 1921
• Hemingway worked
as a reporter for the
Toronto Star
• Hemingway fell in
with expatriates in
Paris Harold Loeb (model for Cohn)
You are all a lost generation…
Gertrude Stein
A tour of Paris sites in The
Sun Also Rises:

• Hemingway’s
apartment (video with
Michael Palin)

• Montparnasse – the
artistic Left Bank area in
Paris

•Cafés: Le Dôme, La
Closerie des Lilas, La
Rotonde, Le Select, and
La Coupole are all still
open and are much the
same as they appeared
in the 1920s.
 roman à clef
• A novel with a “key”
• Written about actual people and
events
• Example: Robert Cohn is based on
Hemingway’s friend Harold Loeb
Hemingway never
actually ran with
bulls…

Like these crazy

people…
 Bullfighting
• Hemingway saw his
first bullfight in 1923.
• Hemingway spent as
much time as possible
in Pamplona during
the 1920s.
• Hemingway even
tried his luck at
bullfighting!

Hemingway
 A lifelong bullfighting aficionado…
two tickets to the upcoming bullfights in Pamplona
were found in his desk drawer after his death in 1961.
The Running of the Bulls
The “correct” outfit for
the San Fermín
Festival (Running of
the Bulls) is a white
shirt, white trousers,
and a “splash” of red.
Legend says “Saint
Fermín” was killed by
a bull over 1000 years
ago.