Lady Brett Ashley From The Sun Also Rises

The majority of people assume Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises is nothing more than a nymphomaniacal slut. Hemingway's symbolic portrayal of women may be best revealed through an investigation of the much-maligned heroine of The Sun Also Rises, Lady Brett Ashley. Popular opinion dismisses her as a shallow, selfish, vain, alcoholic bitch. ("Bitch", though admittedly crude in casual conversation and a term I despise, is the technical term the critics have assigned to …

…t make her a woman" : do you agree??.....or not?? I tend to agree. Near the end she is in the car with Jake and says, "I'm thirty-four, you know. I'm not going to be one of these bitches that ruins children." Which leads me to believe that, aside from the young bullfighter, she gave herself the leeway to ruin older men, men she knew she could toy with and still have a clear conscience.