Charlie Harper is sitting in his living room, watching the boxing match and is about to call one of his many whores. Charlie looks at the phone and then at the television and says, “That’s life!” » This shows that Charlie values ​​two things, sports and women. For what? Simple, women bring sex. Boxing shows a sense of courage, getting into the ring and willingly exposing yourself to get beaten up. Charlie Harper isn't the only one who values ​​these things, but men of the 1920s did too. The Sun Also Rises is a story set in the 1920s and written by Ernest Hemingway. The novel follows the life of Jake, an American veteran, as he and his friends arrive in Pamplona, ​​where a party with numerous bullfights will take place. These periods may be about 90 years apart, but they still value the same ideals. In The Sun Also Rises, the bullfight scenes are at the heart of the novel because they demonstrate the importance that the characters place on sex and courage. This characteristic and action personifies their obsession with masculinity. To begin with, the bullfights show the increased value of sex in the novel and how sex or the ability to have sex is a masculine quality. Roles in bullfighting parallel gender. The steers are castrated, they are useful in taming the bull but apart from that, they are rather useless and not valued by people as Robert Cohn remarks "It is no life to be an ox" (Hemingway 145) The bull, on the other hand, is a majestic creature. , an untamed wild beast. Everyone applauds the bulls and can't wait to see them. These roles in bullfighting also parallel the characters in The Sun Also Rises. Jake and Cohn are steers and Brett is a bull. Jake and Cohn are steers and this is demonstrated not only by their middle of paper ......e in the style of bullfighters, how bullfighters are loved and praised by their audience, as well as by the masculinity of being. able to watch an entire bullfight. Overall, the importance of masculinity in the novel is seen through sex and bravery through masculinity in the essential bullfight scenes. This also demonstrates the social norms of the 1920s, as being masculine made you socially accepted. This masculinity continues to be an important topic today, because your masculinity shows your gender role. Now, depending on whether a woman or man exhibits masculine traits, this can either be relatively normal for men or portrayed as quite repulsive and not part of the social norm for women. The degree of masculinity a person displays can show how well they are recognized in society, and social acceptance continues to be a key value in various people's lives today..