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Lady Brett as a â€Å"Modern Woman† â€Å"Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s (Hemingway 29-30).† This was not a normal look for a lady at the time and Hemingway is using this to give the reader a feel how the â€Å"modern woman† looks. Brett stands out as the type of girl that all men would love to take home with them and, she knows it. Brett denies the only man she truly loves, distances herself from another man in which she shares a short-lived love affair, breaks it off with a bullfighter for whom she fell, and plans to marry a man for superficial reasons. Hemingway’s condemnation of Brett and the â€Å"modern woman† are shown through her relationships with Jake, Mike, Robert, and Pedro. In the first pages of the novel, we are introduced to Robert Cohn. Cohn is a middle-aged Jewish writer with a dream of one day going to South America in order to get away from Paris. As soon as Brett is introduced into Cohn’s life, he forgets all about his dream because it is worth staying Paris if he can be with her. One of his first comments about her is, â€Å"She’s a remarkably attractive woman (46).† Hemingway’s condemnation of the â€Å"modern woman† is first exemplified when Cohn asks Brett to dance. â€Å"The music started and Robert Cohn said: ‘Will you dance with me, Lady Brett?’ Brett smiled at him. ‘I’ve promised to dance this with Jacob†¦Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ ‘How about the next?’ asked Cohn. ‘We’re going,’ Brett said. ‘We’ve a date up at Montmartre (30).† Although the reader might not suspect anything from this quote, it is ironic because later on in the novel Brett and Cohn make a trip to San Sebastian, Spain together. Brett is in control of the situation with Cohn and has him at her disposal. Brett asks Cohn on this trip for purely her own sexual desires. Hemingway uses Brett and Cohn’s relationship to show th... Free Essays on Sun Also Rises Free Essays on Sun Also Rises Lady Brett as a â€Å"Modern Woman† â€Å"Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s (Hemingway 29-30).† This was not a normal look for a lady at the time and Hemingway is using this to give the reader a feel how the â€Å"modern woman† looks. Brett stands out as the type of girl that all men would love to take home with them and, she knows it. Brett denies the only man she truly loves, distances herself from another man in which she shares a short-lived love affair, breaks it off with a bullfighter for whom she fell, and plans to marry a man for superficial reasons. Hemingway’s condemnation of Brett and the â€Å"modern woman† are shown through her relationships with Jake, Mike, Robert, and Pedro. In the first pages of the novel, we are introduced to Robert Cohn. Cohn is a middle-aged Jewish writer with a dream of one day going to South America in order to get away from Paris. As soon as Brett is introduced into Cohn’s life, he forgets all about his dream because it is worth staying Paris if he can be with her. One of his first comments about her is, â€Å"She’s a remarkably attractive woman (46).† Hemingway’s condemnation of the â€Å"modern woman† is first exemplified when Cohn asks Brett to dance. â€Å"The music started and Robert Cohn said: ‘Will you dance with me, Lady Brett?’ Brett smiled at him. ‘I’ve promised to dance this with Jacob†¦Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ ‘How about the next?’ asked Cohn. ‘We’re going,’ Brett said. ‘We’ve a date up at Montmartre (30).† Although the reader might not suspect anything from this quote, it is ironic because later on in the novel Brett and Cohn make a trip to San Sebastian, Spain together. Brett is in control of the situation with Cohn and has him at her disposal. Brett asks Cohn on this trip for purely her own sexual desires. Hemingway uses Brett and Cohn’s relationship to show th... Free Essays on Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises is a brilliant book written by Ernest Hemingway, that illustrates the decadence during the 1920’s. Throughout the book Hemingway expresses at the time an illegal habit in America, alcoholic drinking. He also displays the beginning of open sexual/physical contact, flirting with more than one person, and having more than one sexual partner. Hemingway’s characters shows decry in their work habits. Throughout the book Hemingway displays many examples of the modern world in the 1920’s, and the decline in moral standards. Alcoholism was big during the 1920’s, and Hemingway displays this moral decay of values through the eyes of his characters. Hemingway 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 w eeklong fiesta. During this time in the US drinking was illegal, and Hemingway was showing a lack of respect, and care for the law. He was able to illustrate the modern world and its increase in alcoholism and its decrease of the moral values during the 1920’s. Ernest Hemingway shows his brilliance by displaying the decay in moral standards. One of those moral standards was the openness of peoples’ being attracted to the opposite sex, or same sex. Hemingway chose to display this by using Brett as his center point and having everyone she comes in contact with fall in love with her. At the beginning of the book Brett was with a group of openly gay men. The gay guys were dancing with each other and being open about their sexual preference. This really didn’t happen before the war. Throughout the book Brett and Barnes flirt a lot and they also kiss several times. Brett also has and affair and sleeps with Cohn at San Sebastian. Brett also chooses to flirt a...