... impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. Through masculine male characters such as ... , his blind love for Brett ultimately betrays his own desire to possess her himself. Pedro Romero represents the primary masculine figure in The Sun Also Rises. His bullfighting epitomizes masculinity because it requires the traditional...

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