I was never a big Hemingway fan until I read 'The Sun Also Rises' for the second time in my thirties and was able to appreciate it. This book allows you to feel what he felt and live what he lived in Paris in his day. My heart nearly broke for him at the very end, because of the loveliness of his relationship with his first wife, Hadley. The ordinariness of their relationship, and the transcendence, are hard to hear in their simple truth.Hemingway says, "When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her."