Parallels between Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyDuring the decade of the 1920s, America was going through many changes, evolving from the Victorian period to the jazz age. Changing with the times, the young adults of the 1920s were considered the "lost generation". The Great War had ended in 1918. The men returning from the war had the scars of war imprinted on their minds. In 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor in the United States. Despite the Eighteenth Amendment, most people think of big, lavish parties when they think of the 1920s. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote, a major achievement in the women's rights movement. Women have exchanged their long, updo hairstyles for short, sleek haircuts. From the “Lost Generation” emerged two great American literary writers: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both men wrote their best novels in the 1920s in which they examined the evils of the time and the consequences that accompanied the actions of characters who acted on those vices. There are parallels between the vices of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and the vices of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: namely excessive alcohol consumption, sexual promiscuity, and the power of money. The first parallel between a vice in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and a vice in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is that of excessive alcohol consumption. The character is in The Sun Also Rises; namely Brett Ashley, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell and Pedro Romero, reside in Europe where there is no ban on liquor. That... middle of the paper... Oney and all the people he knew through business contacts and the many parties he threw, only Nick and Gatsby's father attended his funeral. In conclusion, there are several parallels of vices between Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: namely excessive alcohol consumption, sexual promiscuity and the power of money.WORKS CITEDFitzgerald, Scott F. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribers, 1925. Jones. Interview. Celebration. BBS message 1160. 11/10/94.Hemingway, Ernest. The sun also rises. New York: Macmillan, 1954.McDowell, Nicholas. Hemingway. Vero Beach: Rourke, 1989. Monique, interview. Theme. BBS Message 1755. 03/11/94.Rood, Karen Lane, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1980.J:ofsengclarklessaylindasch.doc