She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's (Hemingway 29-30)."" ... Hemingway's condemnation of the "modern woman- is first exemplified when Cohn asks Brett to dance. ... Hemingway's depiction of Brett and Jacob's relationship shows his disapproval for the "modern woman."" ... Throughout the novel, Hemingway depicts the "modern woman- as being insensitive to other people's feelings. ... Hemingway creates a character to have all the markings of a "modern woman."" ...

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However, Hemingway's portrayal of Paris is one of a saddened, feeble, disillusioned postwar city and therefore, the characters deal with a somewhat saddening, feeble, postwar, love. In his novel, Ernest Hemingway describes a couple of characters, Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who seem to share a very strange and distant kind of love for each other. ... At the same time I also feel Brett is independent in that she can use her beauty to flaunt with men. Brett has lost her real true love, also her first true love, which, in my opinion, is one factor that prevents her from commitment....

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The character of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, is a compelling one for a host of reasons. Although Cohn is a central character in the novel, it is impossible for the reader to gain an unbiased depiction of his personality. Therefore, although his actions speak loudly for so...

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