Many critics have made similar comparisons, and in large
part they are based on the setting of the story. Both T.S. Eliot and Hemmingway were
deeply troubled by the events of the war, and the way that Europe was completely
devestated, physically and emotionally after the war. Hemmingway himself served on the
Eastern Front in some of the ugliest and in many ways arguably the most pointless
fighting of the war (in a war filled with it).
Because of
this, both "The Wasteland" and The Sun Also Rises address themes of
disillusionment, loss, inability to feel emotion or to find fulfillment in anything.
Because of these connections, again many critics have declared that Hemmingway's work is
a "prose analog" to T.S. Eliot's.
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