The Sun Also Rises: Drinking

"This win is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste." -pg. 66

The most noticeable part of this book was all the drinking. They were drunk all of the time. They spent most of their time in bars. Liquor was the first thing they looked for everywhere they went. I thought it was annoying. Was drinking really that much a part of that era? With all of the drunkeness, how could half of what they said be taken seriously? This book never really went anywhere, and I think it mostly had to do with how much they consumed. It felt like a recurring scene, always doing the same thing, just in a different place with different people. The characters did, however, say more of what was on their minds when they were drunk. Mike told Cohn how pathetic he was, Brett confessed her love to everyone, all of that. It was the only positive outcome of their drinking.