Brett does not care that Jake is in love with her, she likes the idea and uses it to her advantage. I’m in love with him, I think” (Hemingway 186-187). Women care about other people’s feelings, Brett does not, she asks Jake “Do you still love me?”, “Yes” responds Jake “… I’m a goner.
Brett was very out of the ordinary, her appearance and behavior was very different compared to other women.
Brett can definitely be referred to as a flapper because she does all of those things. A flapper were women who cut their hair short, wore short dresses, drank, smoked, and cursed, basically a woman who acted out of the ordinary. During the 1920s women did not normally have short hair or dress out of traditional gender roles, but the ones who did were normally referred to as a flapper. This was the first real description Jake Barnes said about Brett. She refuses to adapt to the norm of social gender roles during the 1920s, “She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s” (Hemingway 30). Lady Brett Ashley is a new woman who creates her own traits that are different from normal feminine traits. The third wave 1990- present, is the resistance simple beliefs and a white, heterosexual, middle-class focus of second wave feminism, and the third wave feminism that focuses on gender and race theories. The second wave happened 1960-1970, this wave worked on more equal working conditions. The early 1900s the women’s suffrage movement began and ended around the ’20s with the win of the Nineteenth Amendment. The first wave of feminism was in 1700-1900, famous female writes to highlight the inequalities between the sexes. Some experts say that Feminist Criticism followed the three waves of feminism. Feminist Criticism exposes the misogyny in literature and diversifies everyday jobs, for example, medicine, most experiments are tested on men and most physicians are, “82.4 percent of physicians over the age of 65 being male.”(The healthcare Future is Female). The powerful female character, Lady Brett Ashley, makes the novel The Sun Also Rises empowering for women.įeminist Criticism is “ concerned with ‘…the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women”(Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)). Lady Brett Ashley is delineated as a “flapper”, she is a woman who flaunts herself around men, does what she wants, and does not act like a traditional classy woman of the 1920s. Hemingway did not portray Brett as an object, instead he showed her off, he showed how great of a woman she is without being held down by a man. In his literature, he belittles and degrades women, but in this novel, the female character, Brett, can be seen as a feminist figure. Hemingway was not the type of man who treated women in chivalrous manner. The novel is written through the eyes of one of the characters, Jake Barnes, who is based on Ernest Hemingway himself. Ernest Hemingway is the author of The Sun Also Rises and wrote the novel as a Roman à clef in 1926.
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