... heroines are astounding but even more remarkable are the differences. Fitzgerald's descriptive and poetic flair creates a fantasy girl who shares many of the same qualities and attributes that Hemingway's Lady Brett does. Although Hemingway's style is short and non-descriptive, leaving a lot to the imagination, strikingly the characters actions are motivated by similar desires. Both leading flamboyant, extravagant lives, waltzing ... neglectfully along. Both authors paint images of beautiful, powerful, rich women who are emotionally weak and very dependant on others. A very evident simi...

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... . Leaving a letter for her had also put the point across that he had actually taken the time to meet her. Although Jake still had love for Brett, she had fallen in love, once again with another man, Pedro the Bullfighter. Jake, being understanding towards her choices, allows her to see him, yet ... again putting his feelings for her aside. By doing this, he exhibits the concern that he had for Brett and her happiness. Though it made Jake look like a "damned pimp"(p. 190) for "selling" her to Pedro once again, he only did it only because ... it was more important for Brett. Brett finally...

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... place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This hardship results in a digression of values both morally and socially. The Love that Brett and Jake share is symbolic of the general decline in values in that they tolerate behaviors in one another that would have been previously considered unacceptable. It ... are a very unusual group of feelings for a person to have toward one person, but it was a very unusual time. Jake knew of Robert's relationship with Brett, and it ate him up with envy, but at the same time he knew how it had ended. He had been close friends with Ro...

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... takes place immediately after World War I, a time of great hardship. This hardship results in a digression of values both morally and socially. The love that Brett and Jake share is symbolic of the general decline in values in that they tolerate behaviors in one another that would have been previously considered unacceptable. It ... These are a very unusual group of feelings for a person to have toward one person, but it was a very unusual time. Jake knew of Robertrelationship with Brett, and it ate him up with envy, but at the same time he knew how it had ended. He had been close friend...

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... illustrates this at all parts of the book. Whenever Barnes is at a club, his house, hotel room he is drinking. At San Sebastian, Cohn and Brett were said to be drinking. While Jake and Bill were on their fishing trip they were drinking wine the whole time and everyone was drinking during the weeklong ... didn't happen a lot before the war either. Hemingway chose to illustrate his the decline of moral values by using Brett as his center point, and having anything to do with sex happen with Brett in the sentence. The work ethic of the modern man after World War I declined in its productivi...

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... treating him/her cruel. In The Sun Also Rises, love becomes the fate that turns ugly. There is no evidence of joyful, fulfilling love. The two main characters, Jake and Brett Ashley, cannot love either physically or emotionally. When they speak of the possibility of love, they are imagining it in another, better world. Both of them are wounded, Jake physically ... and Brett Ashley, emotionally. In the novel, Brett says,Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together.? Jake replies,Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?? (Hemingway 75.) Robert Cohn, another character ... , become...

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... mountains of rural Spain. Without the stifling atmosphere of hot Paris, Jake can forget not only his physical work, but also the emotional distraught he faces with Brett. On the way into Spain, the two comrades encounter some of the native Basque travelers who "wanted us to drink from their leather wine-bottles" (Ernest ... references to this work will be documented parenthetically in the text). The Basque people are very selfless and cheerful towards Jake and Bill, contrary to Brett and Cohn who manage to think completely of themselves. The "fat woman" (109) who graciously welcomes Ja...

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... painful, as shown in the unrequited love affair between the protagonist and a temporary member of British royalty. Jake has been made impotent by the war and therefore cannot live with Brett as a lover. She has been hurt by the war too, when it took her young first love. As a result, she cannot make lasting commitments and instead has a series of brief ... , self-destructive sexual affairs. Jake and Brett love each other and torture each other with longing and obstructions. She reveals all of her affairs to him and, though it hurts him deeply, he withstands it in order ... ...

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Brett Marc American Literature Oct 22 2003 Scarlet Letter - Pearl as a symbol Pearl is a symbol of Hester's transgressions and even has similar qualities as the sin which she represents. Pearl's life ... ...

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