By saying this, Jake admits that he knows that praying is the right thing to do, but at the same time he does not feel religiously touched by what he has just done.read more.Īt this point, Jake is officially comfortable about being Catholic. At the end of the passage, Jake says, " a grand religion, and I only wished that I felt religious" (103). By falling asleep, Jake has a lack of interest in what he does even though he thinks that it is the right thing to do. This entire passage demonstrates how Jake tries to be a good Catholic, but he cannot fully grasp the concept of being religious. As he prays, he finds that he is, "getting sleepy" and as the prayer goes on, he refers to himself as a "rotten Catholic" (102-3). He also prays for the bullfighters, the bull fights and the fiesta hoping that all will turn out good. He prays for Brett, Mike, Robert, Bill and himself. He prays for a great number of people and events in his life. In the first couple chapters of the novel, there are no references to religion.read more.įor instance, after being angry at Robert Cohn, Jake goes to the cathedral by himself.
At first, Jake is not religious at all, but then starts to shows signs of some kind of belief. Hemingway uses Jake's Catholicism to demonstrate the cyclicality of the novel by showing Jake's attempts to be religious after the war. Jake believes in Catholicism and tries assiduously to reconnect with his religion. In other words, Jake uses his religion as a 'comfort zone' in order to somehow escape the terrible aspects that he goes through. Throughout the novel, Jake finds himself coming back to his faith.
With this problem, Jake loses faith in his religion. Jake lost his ability to reproduce due to an injury from the war. A World War I veteran named Jake Barnes narrates of the story. The same applies in the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Catholicism as a 'Comfort Zone' for Jake in The Sun Also Rises In reality, all people have a 'comfort zone' that they go to whenever a cycle of bad things happens to them.
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