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Hemingway's 'Portrayed In The Sun Also Rises'?

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Through Jake’s resentful diction and metaphorical use of “promised land” after seeing how Cohn looked at Brett, Jake recognizes how many men Brett can influence, and how his impotency makes him unappetizing to her, as shown in the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Lady Brett Ashley is a strong, independent woman who emits power over the people, especially men, around her through her charismatic personality. Hemingway made her seem corrupt and dangerous, suggesting that he thinks independent women are dangerous. Of course, one can “tell something is going on beyond the story” and infer that Hemingway was a misogynist and used Brett as a way to get his ideas a crossed (Foster 116). Jake describes Brett as “very lovely” which is the

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