Gender Roles In The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises Gender as we see it today can be a touchy subject to most people because it has evolved into ideas that were, back then, inconceivable. The roles of women have been evolving since the early twentieth century, when women didn't hold many important roles, to present times when women can have the opportunity to become CEOs of major companies. The first indication of a new strong and independent American woman, by the name of Brett, surfaced in the Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. In Hemingway’s novel, Brett had less regard to her consent of the social expectations of her time period, than any other female character that follows her in American literature.
Hemingway interestingly uses the character of Brett to reevaluate the gender roles of men and women in the early twentieth century that manly, alcoholic, and emotionally unstable women can still be loved, but by doing this Hemingway reinforces the gender stereotype that
For example, Brett is still self conscious and needy, using Jake for emotional release and to have a shoulder to cry on. As for Jake Barnes he still gets jealous and he feels he needs to assert his dominance, this can be seen when Jake gets into a physical fight with Robert to infact assert himself. Jakes need to feel superior and to look and act superior comes to light when he talks about his mates during the war. Jake and Cohn are ironically the same, they both share a stubborn nature which is an example of both femininity and masculinity. Although Robert gets made fun of because of his longing for romantic attention, by the other men in the novel, He is still a romantic character and represents a new found kind of romanticism where love isn't only found in the physical sense but it can also be found in