“Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises” by the American Ernest Hemingway transports the reader to post-war Europe. More precisely, this novel is based on men and women who lived through this war, with all its pain, changes and consequences. Hemingway's narrator, Jack Barnes, is an American journalist who suffers from a war wound that leads to emotional wounding. Through the division of the novel into three books, the reader can see an evolution in Jake's behavior. He goes from a wounded, desperate man living an expat life in Paris to a much stronger and more mature Jake at the end of the Fiesta. The first book begins with some contextual information marking the time and place, who the characters are, and their relationship. and where this story takes place. The reader understands that the narrator is Jake, because of the "I" shape, it depicts a portrait of a friend, Robert Cohn, who was a boxer for Princeton under the era of coach Spider Kelly in the early 20th century. The next few pages revolve around the friendship and tensions between Cohn and Jake leading to Jake's first mention of bullfighting: "No one ever lives his life to the full except bullfighters" (Hemingway 9). With this sentence Jake highlights a distinction between men, some live their lives fully like bullfighters while others do not. Because of his helplessness and especially because of his emotional complication, Jake feels as if he belongs to the second class. Bullfighters are the archetypes of masculinity in Jake's mind, that's why he uses them as a reference, but also why he likes bullfights so much, they allow him to reconnect with his masculinity. In the first book, Jake's masculinity is undermined by his love for Brett. They are involved in a one-sided relationship that ... middle of paper ... that hurt when he is finally over. This is seen in the taxi ride in Madrid when she once again tries to bring him under her power by reminding him of her potential relationship, his only response is ironic and detached “Yes, [I said] Isn't that nice do you think so? ”. Showing his disinterest in her, which marks the final overcoming of his loss. Hemingway's novel contains a moral for all those who have had or will suffer from a physical wound, like Jake, or an emotional wound like Brett, according to which nothing is ever immutable. The title reinforces this idea of ​​mutability and evolution, if you believe in yourself and what surrounds you, such as your passions, your friends, you can overcome any wound, even the one so personal and so horrible that you can't even mention it. Like Jake's helplessness because after the Fiesta the sun always rises.