Parallels Between The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald During the 1920s, America was going through many changes, evolving from Victorian period to the Jazz Age. Changing with the times, young adults of the 1920s were considered the "lost generation." The Great War ended in 1918. The men returning from the war had the scars of war etched into their minds. The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified in 1919 and prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol in the United States. Despite the Eighteenth Amendment, most people think of large, lavish parties when they think of the 1920s. The Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920 and gave women the right to vote, a major achievement in the movement for women's rights. Women have swapped their long, pinned-up hairstyles for short, sleek haircuts. Two great American literary writers came from the “Lost Generation”: namely Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Both men wrote their best novels in the 1920s, in which they examined the evils of the time and the consequences that accompanied the actions of characters who acted on the basis of such vices. There are parallels between the vices of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and the vices of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: namely excessive drinking, sexual promiscuity, and the power of money. The first parallel between a vice in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and a vice in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is that of excessive alcohol consumption. The character is in The Sun Also Rises; namely Brett Ashley, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, Mike Campbell and Pedro Romero, reside in Europe where alcohol is not prohibited. Middle of paper ......oney and all the people he knows through his business contacts and the many parties he threw, only Nick and Gatsby's father attended his funeral. In conclusion, there are several parallels of vices between Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: namely excessive drinking, sexual promiscuity, and the power of money. New York: Scribes, 1925. Jones. Interview. Celebration. BBS Message 1160. 10/11/94. Hemingway, Ernest. The sun is also rising. New York: Macmillan, 1954. McDowell, Nicholas. Hemingway. Vero Beach: Rourke, 1989.Monique, Interview. Theme. Message BBS 1755. 03/11/94. Rood, Karen Lane, ed. Literary biographical dictionary of American writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Flight. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1980.J:ofsengclarklessaylindasch.doc