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…showed last 75 words of 741 total…s idea of life is depicted in this book. In the beginning of the book Brett and Jake are in a taxicab in New York. Again, at the end, they are in the same situation. Everything that happened in the middle of the novel had no meaning. It all ended up right back at the start. The characters are similar to Hemingway, trying to figure out some meaning to their lives during the hard years.