Tone and Diction

I have read to page 151 in The Sun Also Rises. Throughout the novel Ernest Hemingway uses a mild diction. He sounds articulate but he does not use excessively large words with difficult meanings. Hemingway's tone is a combination of somberness and slightly cynical. The novel starts off discussing war so the tone is gloomy and dark and for the most part continues to be serious later in the plot. On page 21, the protagonist said, "I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless." The quote relates to the somber tone because the characters are constantly attempting to drink their sorrows away. It is also cynical because all of the characters are living in disillusion.The tone contrasts the novel's title. "The Sun Also Rises" implies that no matter how depressingly real the character's struggles are the earth will live on. The sun is going to rise and get up in the morning whether or not the people living under it will.