Love as Only Wishful Thinking Throughout Ernest Hemingway's novel, "The Sun Also Rises", the theme of escaping reality by engaging in excessive drinking and casual sex occurs repeatedly. The new attitudes of The Lost Generation manifested in Lady Brett Ashley, who goes through many meaningless relations with several male characters throughout the novel. Indirectly, Brett managed to reject all those with whom she engaged in a relationship. Her rejection to Robert Cohn plays an important …showed first 75 words of 465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 465 total…with Cohn's departure. Cohn, in this story, plays the role of the unrequited lover, chasing after a woman he will never catch. He struggles to find ways to win Brett's affections and attention, even obsessing over her every move only to find her with another man, filling Cohn with insane rage. Once Cohn sees the error of his thinking he realizes he had only been hopelessly chasing after a fantasy leaves town heartbroken and alone.