The Story ends with the fiesta at Pamplona where the characters play out their anxieties and desires along with drinking large quantities of liquor. As a result he cannot manifest his carnal desire for Brett Ashley with whom he carries out an affair. As a former American Serviceman in World War I he was castrated and is unable to perform sexual congress. The Novel itself revolves around the experiences of Jake Barnes and several other people that he met when he went to Pamplona, Spain to see the annual bull fights and fiesta.
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It also saw the failure of the so-called “Balance of Power”, a series of alliances, in preventing war, all the alliances did was when war did start it involved all the allies turning what was a minor affair between Serbia and Austria into a World War. For example, World War I saw the end of mass infantry charges that were prevalent during previous eras because fast firing rifles and machine guns made such tactics suicidal. Their time saw the death of many old ideas. The term also describes literary modernists because this was the generation that grew up in the aftermath of what was once thought to be the last Great War. In page 13 of the book Hemmingway describes the lost generation as those who were born and grew up during World War I and prior to the Great Depression.