In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn's obsession with Brett Ashley causes him jealousy and mayhem. ... Like Cohn, Jake is also jealous over Brett. ... Mike is also very jealous over the Cohn and Brett affair. ... He calls Robert a steer because "they never say anything and they"re always hanging about so." (146) In reality, Mike is also a steer because he also hangs around Brett and lets her abuse him emotionally. ...

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Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who indulges in her passion for sex and control. ... Brett, as a dynamic and self-controlled woman, and her four love interests help demonstrate Hemingway's standard definition of a man and/or masculinity. Each man Brett has a...

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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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