The Sun Also Rises is, in its own way, a story about not much at all, and those are honestly often my favorite stories. Our hero is a journalist ex-pat living in Paris. He and some friends go south to Pamplona to see the bullfights, of which he is a fan. There is a lot of drinking, quite a bit of arguing, some fishing, and a couple bullfights, and then he goes back to Paris. The entirety of the story is about the small-scale social interactions of himself and his group of friends on this trip, not all of whom get along well (or at all). That’s it. That’s all there is.