Lady Brett Ashley From The Sun Also Rises
The majority of people assume Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises is nothing more than a nymphomaniacal slut.Hemingway's symbolic portrayal of women may be best revealed through an investigation of the much-maligned heroine of The Sun Also Rises, Lady Brett Ashley. Popular opinion dismisses her as a shallow, selfish, vain, alcoholic bitch. ("Bitch", though admittedly crude in casual conversation and a term I despise, is the technical term the critics have assigned to the Hemingway heroines they don't particularly like.) One particular critic summarizes the range of popular opinions: Like other Hemingway heroines, Brett Ashley has been denounced as a weak character… The more serious and frequent critical charges against [her], however, are that she lacks the characteristics of a woman and, worse, that she is a "bitch"…the sentimentally regarded dare-devil, and she never becomes "real". (Whitlow 148) Brett's seemingly insatiable sexual appetite and apparent lack of moral inhibitions do not aid the reader in reaching the conclusion that she is a romantic symbol. However, there are a few twists of plot in The Sun Also Rises that, when taken into account, explain not only Brett's behavior but also the narrator's reaction. First, the
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Approximate Word count = 7645
Approximate Pages = 31 (250 words per page double spaced)
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