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neurotics or splitting personality in one’s natural psychological development. Hemingway, in some extent, agrees with this attitude for he believes that Jack and Brett’s love isn’t an integrated love since they can’t really live together. And this is the deepest pain and longest distance between them. Conclusion Affected by the World War 1, Ernest Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence wrote these two great works: The Sun Also Rises and Lady Chatterley‘s Lover. With the similar background, the characters in these two novels have much alike. The two main male characters are caused impotent because of the war, and what they have to bear are not only the hurt in physical but also in mental. They feel hopeless, even desperate for they have lost the life force in natural way. On the other hand, although they faced similar wound, they leaded two distinctive different lives. Jack in The Sun Also Rises, managed to learn how to live in a men’s world. It seems that making friends and traveling are his major life affair. But in fact, what he cares most is the relationship between him and Brett. And what hurts most is the impossible love between him and Brett. Clifford Chatterley, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is the very representative of the mechanical world. He is also caused impotent and paralysis during the war. If we can say that Clifford Chatterley’s post-war life is lifeless and feckless. He has no true love with Commie. What he cares most is the production of the mine. Lawrence tries to use Clifford Chatterley as a symbol of the lifeless civilization mechanical world, and express his hate to this kind of reality. The two main female characters in these two works also have much alike and difference, both of them abandons the old discrimination to women. Brett in The Sun Also Rises is the image of the “lost generation” depicted by Ernest Hemingway. Since she cannot live together with his beloved Jack, she chooses a life with traveling and gets close with other men for fun. However, she still feels vulnerable and desires support from Jack. And the pain between Jack and her seems endless since they cannot live together is an unchangeable fact. Connie, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover regains the life and love from Mellors. The authors’ view on life and society also affects the characterization in these two novels. Both Ernest Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence hate the war; have the strong reaction against the mechanical civilization and passionate love for the natural world. Jack, Brett and Mellors are the symbols of auto-mechanical civilization world while Clifford Chatterley is the symbol of lifeless mechanical civilization world. From this paper, we can know that although the war’s influence is great, and sometimes its influence to some people are similar, different people would choose different ways of life since they have different attitude toward life. Bibliography [1] Bruccoli, Mattew J. ed. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises [M]. A Facsimite Edition. 20 Vols. Betroit: Omnigraphics, 1990. [2] Chang Yaoxin. A Survey of American Literature [M]. Nankai: Nankai Universituy Press, 2001. [3] Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover [Z]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1996. [4] Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises [M]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. [5] Hu Yingtong, Liu Shusen. Course in American Literature [M]. Nankai: Nankai University Press, 2001. [6] Scott Bonaldson. The Cambridge Compaction to Ernest Hemi