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Spoiler alert for Forest Gump       One thing that I noticed right away about Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is its parallels with the movie Forest Gump. I think by observing how Forest Gump ended, we can make some interesting predictions or guesses on Brett and Jake's future relationship.      In Forest Gump, Forest, who is the main character, falls in love with a girl named Jenny at a young age. However, as they both get older, Jenny refuses to engage in a relationship with Forest because of his mental disability, even though Jenny and Forest get along quite well. I thought this was very similar to the situation with Brett and Jake. Brett, like Jenny, comes from a rough history and refuses to be in a relationship with Jake because of his injury. This is very similar to Jenny's refusal to be in a relationship with Forest. Furthermore, the vernacular used by Jenny in the movie and Brett is very similar. In many ways, the dynamic between these tw...

    Throughout the novel Mrs. Dalloway , the reader takes a close look at multiple different characters living in 20th-century London. However, a key aspect of the book is how some characters spend most of their thoughts in the past. I think the differences and struggles between the younger versions of these characters and the current versions show that Virginia Woolf tries to suggest that 20th-century London has a society unfit for individual growth.     I think the first character that embodies this is Clarissa Dalloway. Mainly through the eyes of Peter Walsh, we get to see that Clarissa Dalloway is a very complex character. Although Clarissa is originally introduced to the reader as a typical rich woman in London, personal doubts, stresses, and identity issues are revealed through Peter. One of the things that we learn from Peter is that he thinks of Clarissa as a once interesting  person. He remembers how charismatic and different Clarissa was in the past, b...