After World War I and the conflict it brought to American culture, seemingly good times were had by all in the Roaring Twenties; however, reality is expressed through the negative events of the “Lost Generation”. Published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises serves as an allegory of the era, explaining the plights of young American and foreign adults of the "Lost Generation." The journey of Robert Cohn, Lady Bret Ashley and Jake Barnes and their experience abroad in France is one of false relationships, disparaging actions of women and insecurity of men, furthermore, the major issues of the time come together to forming what people living in the 1920s and historians postulate as the "lost generation". As an enlightening tale, The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's portrait of a morally sick generation. In conclusion, Hemingway uses character description and symbolism to present the aimless destruction of the "Lost Generation." In the early part of the 1920s, Gertrude. Stein told Ernest Hemingway, “All you young men who served in the war, you are the lost generation.” (Shi 987) After World War I, those who served returned to a world that had lost its morals, lifestyles, and traditional status quo. As a result, the young soldiers were forced to reconcile with a seemingly meaningless world the generation turned to alcohol, sex and tainted love affairs. (Shi 988) From 1920 to 1926, a series of novels, including Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, formed a modern form of literature (Reynolds 6, moreover, these novels were based on). “Lost Generation” and the issues that perpetually followed the Great War. Ernest Hemingway himself was a member of this generation, a… middle of paper… realistic issues of the time. Ernest Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises as an allegorical account of the times he firsthand and experienced as a way of life, in fact, his use of symbolism and character development represent the aimlessness of the "Lost Generation" . Works Cited Bloom, Harold. American fiction between the two wars. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005. Print.Bloom, Harold. Ernest Hemingway. New York: Chelsea House, 1985. Bryfonski Press, Dedria. Male and female roles in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Detroit, MI: Green Haven/Gale, 2008. Print.Hemingway, Ernest. The sun also rises. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Print.Reynolds, Michael S. The Sun Also Rises, a Novel of the Twenties. Boston: Twayne, 1988. Print.Shi, David E. History of the United States. 7th ed. New York: Norton &, 2007. Print.