Jake Barnes, Chaucer's Pardoner, and the Restaurant Scene in Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'

Author / Editor
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.

Title
Jake Barnes, Chaucer's Pardoner, and the Restaurant Scene in Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'

Published
Cithara 26:2 (1987): 48-55.

Description
The restaurant scene in "The Sun Also Rises" echoes the conclusion of Chaucer's PardT. Like the Pardoner, Jake Barnes is "sexually disabled" and spiritually remiss. Both characters see money as power; both substitute food and drink for sex; both reveal heroism and "gentilesse" of other characters.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Pardoner and His Tale.