Daisy Buchanan and Lady Brett Ashley

Research Paper The Sun Also Rises and the Great Gatsby are both very interesting books written in the 1920's. The characters of Lady Brett Ashley and Daisy Buchanan also influenced many women in that time period on how they acted, dressed, and the choices they made in their everyday life’s. Lady Brett Ashley is a very tart character. She goes after men and has sex with them and then they provide everything for her. She is probably the most unsympathic character in the whole story. She uses men then discards them once they are of no use to her. As Cohn, "says she is Circe, who turns men into swine". By turning them into lower creatures, she uses them and then kills them at the right moment. On the other hand Daisy Buchanan is also a very careless person. She thinks more about herself more than she does of anyone else. She does not use men as much as Lady Brett Ashley does but she does marry for money over love, and when she realizes that Jay has money she starts questioning her marriage with Tom. She is also a very shady character that changes throughout the story. At first Jay sees her as the green light that he is reaching out towards across the water and when he finally sees her he realizes she is still unattainable like that green light. To start with; Lady Brett Ashley is as a very odd character taking on masculine roles. Instead of playing the timid young woman, Brett, known as the "New Woman," is able to take what she wants. She is first introduced arriving at a bar with a group of homosexual men. Her association with homosexuals may be that she relates to them better than her straight friends because, like Brett, the homosexual men are also looking for male companionship. Another masculine detail Lady Brett Ashley shows is her excessive drinking habits. According to John W. Crowley in The White Logic," drinking is a masculine trait." The act of drinking, especially in a bar, is inherently male and “integral to the rugged ideal of manliness." When people