Aakash's 20th Century Thoughts

Aakash Vasireddy | 20th Century Blog Post #4 | October 16th, 2020 Today's post: Jake Barnes: Our Narrator Happy end of the 1st Quarter! To end off the first quarter, we got another blog post coming at you about our new book The Sun Also Rises by the classic 20th Century author and writer @TheRealErnestHemingway. In today's post, I want to reflect on my interpretation of our narrator Jake Barnes, including my thoughts about his personality and his character through what we've seen so far in The Sun Also Rises . He is a very interesting character that has many layers of complexity that we've discussed in the last couple weeks. At the end, I will also give some of my general thoughts about what we've read so far from Hemingway. I'll start by saying that our narrator Jake Barnes has been a very unique character thus far. I can't really decipher if I'm in a place in the novel to really say I can empathize with Jake and confidently say that I like him as a cha...

 Aakash Vasireddy | 20th Century Blog Post #3 | October 2nd, 2020 Today's post: Clarissa and Septimus: Two Characters in the Same World In today's post, I want to go kind of extend my thoughts and opinions about the notebook prompt we did today and Woolf's decision of incorporating Septimus's narrative into Mrs. Dalloway  which originally was without him and more based on Clarissa. This discussion that we had during class as well as just the topic in general is pretty interesting and fascinating to us as readers because it is a very important aspect of the novel. I'm willing to be a little bit messy when it comes to sharing my thoughts here because I think there are a lot of things at play that I would like to mention. Throughout Mrs. Dalloway , we as readers see the perspectives of all these different characters that flow through Clarissa's narrative: our title character Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway as well as Peter Walsh, Sally Seton, Richard Dalloway, and more. How...