Brett from The Sun also rises
“I’m not alone.
I’ll never be.
And to the bone,
I’m evergreen” Brett is a very complex character in Ernest Hemingway’s book The Sun Also Rises. Lots of her actions and her views of life relate to that of The National’s “Don’t Swallow the Cap.” Too afraid to deal with her own issues, Brett drinks her problems away and is only content when she receives attention from men. Because Brett doesn’t want to be left alone to face her own issues, she constantly tries to comfort herself with the presence of a man. She is “not alone” ever because she doesn’t care who the man is; she just desires their company to distract her from her problems. The term evergreen refers to something fresh and interesting, which is just like Brett, because she is such a young and sexual character. The National makes several references to being drunk like when they say, “I an hardly stand up right. I hit my head on the light” and “when it gets late I forget everyone” Brett does drink often and Jake notices and says, “I saw she was quite drunk” (40.) Drinking is one way that Brett tries to ignore her problems. She figures that while she is under the influence of alcohol she can’t remember her problems, so she doesn’t have to deal with them. The scene that is depicted by The National goes, “I need somewhere to stay. I don’t think anybody I know is awake. Calm down, it’s alright”. This scene is very similar to the scene that Brett finds herself in when she is drunk and needs to be comforted in chapter four. “It was half past four” and Brett asked, “can a chap sit down?” (40.) Brett is looking for somebody to calm her down and comfort her at this un-godly hour and Jake is there for her. When Brett is looking to relax, she looks to Jake to “calm [her] down”. In this scene Brett executes both tactics of finding male companionship and getting drunk to help her forget her problems. A final instance shows that “Don’t swallow the Cap,” relates to Brett is when The National says, “I need
I’ll never be.
And to the bone,
I’m evergreen” Brett is a very complex character in Ernest Hemingway’s book The Sun Also Rises. Lots of her actions and her views of life relate to that of The National’s “Don’t Swallow the Cap.” Too afraid to deal with her own issues, Brett drinks her problems away and is only content when she receives attention from men. Because Brett doesn’t want to be left alone to face her own issues, she constantly tries to comfort herself with the presence of a man. She is “not alone” ever because she doesn’t care who the man is; she just desires their company to distract her from her problems. The term evergreen refers to something fresh and interesting, which is just like Brett, because she is such a young and sexual character. The National makes several references to being drunk like when they say, “I an hardly stand up right. I hit my head on the light” and “when it gets late I forget everyone” Brett does drink often and Jake notices and says, “I saw she was quite drunk” (40.) Drinking is one way that Brett tries to ignore her problems. She figures that while she is under the influence of alcohol she can’t remember her problems, so she doesn’t have to deal with them. The scene that is depicted by The National goes, “I need somewhere to stay. I don’t think anybody I know is awake. Calm down, it’s alright”. This scene is very similar to the scene that Brett finds herself in when she is drunk and needs to be comforted in chapter four. “It was half past four” and Brett asked, “can a chap sit down?” (40.) Brett is looking for somebody to calm her down and comfort her at this un-godly hour and Jake is there for her. When Brett is looking to relax, she looks to Jake to “calm [her] down”. In this scene Brett executes both tactics of finding male companionship and getting drunk to help her forget her problems. A final instance shows that “Don’t swallow the Cap,” relates to Brett is when The National says, “I need