1. First Person Narrator

Beginning in chapter one, the reader is instantly informed of a first person narrator in the second sentence, Do not think that I am very much impressed... (Hemingway, 11), and by the end of the chapter we are informed that our narrator's name is Jake. It is not so much Jake as a character I wish to focus on but rather, the author who created Jake. I feel as if Hemingway followed the old adage, write what you know. From the back cover of the book and the about the author page, one can learn that Hemingway was a writer for The Kansas City Star, injured in WWI, settled in Paris, and was interested in nature and bull fighting. Jake, like his counterpart in the novel, is an injured American veteran of WWI from Kansas City, a writer for a newspaper in Paris, who mentions that "'Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters'"(Hemingway, 18). Although Cohn is the character trying to write fictional stories, like Hemingway eventually suceeded in, he is most shown through the character of Jake. Which in a way makes logical sense to have Jake be the narrator, because Hemingway was able to freely use 'I' as the author living snippets of this piece. Overall, I feel as if Hemingway left a piece of himself in this novel, and maybe that is why it is acclaimed as one of his "masterpieces".