Consumerism in The Sun Also Rises  

作　　者：黄月萍 HUANG Yue-ping(Shanghai Maritime University,Shanghai 200000,China)

机构地区：[1]Shanghai Maritime University,Shanghai 200000,China

出　　处：《海外英语》2020年第24期225-228,242,共5页Overseas English

摘　　要：The Sun Also Rises,as the representative work of Ernest Hemingway,had been studied from various perspectives by the researchers.This thesis focuses on the consumerism culture in the novel.The theory of consumerism culture became a comparative⁃ly new theory after World War I and is now called consumerism.This thesis is divided into an introduction,the main body and a conclusion.The introduction shows the researches of home and abroad and comes up with the theme of consumerism revealed in The Sun Also Rises based on the researches.The main body consists of three parts.The first chapter discusses the rise of consumer⁃ism in The Sun Also Rises.By analyzing the social background and elements of consumerism,the thesis looks at the consumerism in the novel.The second chapter explores the attitudes of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashely toward consumption as well as the con⁃sumption pattern in the novel.The last chapter discusses Hemingway’s value orientation,the pursuit for the consumption of the modern people and women as the prime consumer in contemporary society[18].The conclusion summarizes the main ideas discussed in the previous chapters and offers reflections on consumerism for contemporary China.

关 键 词：The Sun Also Rises CONSUMERISM consumption attitudes and patterns 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]