The Hemingway Hero 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 fiancee for superficial reasons,
             completely ruins one man emotionally and spiritually, separates from
             another to preserve the idea of their short-lived affair and to avoid
             self-destruction, and denies and disgraces the only man whom she loves
             most dearly. All her relationships occur in a period of months, as
             Brett either accepts or rejects certain values or traits of each man.
             Brett, as a dynamic and self-controlled woman, and her four love
             interests help demonstrate Hemingway's standard definition of a man
             and/or masculinity. Each man Brett has a relationship with in the
             novel possesses distinct qualities that enable Hemingway to explore
             what it is to truly be a man. The Hemingway man thus presented is a
             man of action, of self-discipline and self-reliance, and of strength
             and courage to confront all weaknesses, fears, failures, and even
             Jake Barnes, as the narrator and supposed hero of the novel, fell
             in love with Brett some years ago and is still powerfully and
             uncontrollably in love with her. However, Jake is unfortunately a
             casualty of the war, having been emasculated in a freak accident.
             Still adjusting to his impotence at the beginning of the novel, Jake
             has lost all power and desire to have sex. Because of this, Jake and
             Brett cannot be lovers and all attempts at a relationship that is
             sexually fulfilling are simply futile. Brett is a passionate, lustful
             woman who is driven by the most intimate and loving act tw...