What is the meaning of life?

The characters in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises constantly struggle with the meaning of life. They find themselves partying every night, masking their true feelings with the boos. I think that the ultimate meaning of life is inner happiness and that the characters in the book are trying to find that inner happiness in the wrong place. One main character, Brett, is looking for her happiness in hooking up with guys and dumping them after a few weeks. She even claims to Jake that she has “been so miserable.” Brett is known as the “man-eater” in the book because although she wants to be happy, she is looking for happiness in all the wrong places. The other main characters are also faced with this similar obstacle. They are all young adults travelling around the world experiencing life one step at a time. Hemingway’s characters often remind me of a reality show because they party all the time and act like nothing else matters. Once the characters stop caring about where the next drink is coming from and starts paying attention to what is going on in their lives, only then they can start to find that inner happiness that they have been longing for.