Jon Franzese All the Way Up In The Sun Also Rises, bullfighting is a recurrent theme throughout the story. Jake is a true aficionado and travels to Pamplona every year for the bullfights. Jake admires the bullfighters and is impressed by Romero. Jake’s thorough descriptions of the bullfights show his passion for the sport. His descriptions are long and detailed, and don’t leave out any details. Jake’s knowledge of bullfighting seems to …showed first 75 words of 580 total…

…showed last 75 words of 580 total…saying that only bullfighters really live, he can more easily accept his life and its insignificance. Jake’s lifestyle of drinking and general aimlessness was typical after the war as shown by his friends and others that went to Europe to live. Pedro is pure and whole. He is unspoiled by the war. His purity is in contrast with the shallowness of Jake’s generation. Bullfighters live the life that Jake wishes he could lead.