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 plans to marry her fiancée for superficial reasons, completely …showed first 75 words of 2590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2590 total…male ideal, Hemingway betrays the larger socio-cultural assumptions about men and masculinity and questions the conventional means in which they are defined in his society. Work Cited Baldwin, Marc. Hemingway's Political Unconscious, Lang, Peter Publishing Incorporated: 1998 pg 168 Hemingway. Ernest. The Sun also Rises, Simon & Schuster Trade: June 1996 pg 224 Lynn, Kenneth S. Hemingway, Harvard University Press: 1995 pg 712 Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography, Da Capo Press, Incorporated: 1999 pg 688 Ross, Lillian. Portrait of Hemingway, Modern Library: July 1999 pg 128