…his ill-advised ranking is not really the focus of my ire, it simply pushed that ire over the edge. What has me almost apoplectic is the attempted deconstruction of Hemingway by so many critics and readers today. It is often couched in the guise of woke political correctness, but in reality the reason is the same today as it was in 1926 when The Sun Also Rises was first published: jealousy.