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Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

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Title Light, James (Jim), (includes photographs), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1956-1989

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1956-1989

Language English

Subjects New Left

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User-Contributed Transcription III. In The Sun Also Rises, Jake learns that it is not his physical wound which is keeping him away from happiness and the woman he loves, Brett, but that it is a matter or circum-stances which not he, not Brett, not the war could have changed. In the final line he says, "Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?" in answer to Brett's lament that "we could have had such a damned good time together." He had agreed with her earlier in the novel. He thought his sexual wound was keeping him from her and happiness but he knows that wasn't it at all. It is nice to think so because that explains away all their problems. If Jake had been able to have Brett, she would have become tired of him as she had in one way or another with every other man she had ever loved. Even Romero who was so attractive because he was handsome, manly and lived so close to death she leaves, because he wanted her to be submissive and feminine, because he talked of vows and because she was bad for him in his work. There would have been something which kept Jake from realizing his happiness even if he had had Brett. For man really only lives out his story in order to die. Death is the end of all. The only thing that really matters is how a man behaves at the time of danger, at the time when he is hurt. The best way for Jake was to be a stoic, at least, in public. A man are nothing but a victim so he must make the best of whatever cross he has to bear, for he will have one. The only way to escape is momentarily in sleep or in the wilds of mother nature, or to live always voluntarily in the area of danger as the bullfighter does. The bullfighter
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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 17 Folder 902

BibID nan

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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