Comparing Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby and Brett of The Sun Also

Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby and Brett Ashley of The cheer also Rises Written chasten after the publication of Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, Hemingways The Sun Also Rises is apparently influenced in many ways. The most obvious of Fitzgeralds influence is manifested in Hemingways portrayal of his heroine, Brett Ashley. Numerous critics have noted and discussed the similarities between Brett and Daisy Buchanan, and rightly so only the two women also have fundamental differences. Compared to Daisy, Brett is a more(prenominal) rounded, complex character, and Hemingway has treated her with more sympathy than Fitzgerald has with Daisy. Some similarities between Brett Ashley and Daisy Buchanan accommodate their physical beauty, their extravagant/ flamboyant briostyle, and their unhappy marriages. However, their most important semblance is the destructive influence they have on their suitors. Daisy attracts Jay Gatsby with her beauty--not only her physical appearance, but a lso the entire carefree, comfortable, luxurious lifestyle Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the jejuneness and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming uniform silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor (157). To Gatsby the rich life is temptingly desirable because it was equaled to Daisy herself. Her life far detached from the sweaty hard struggle seems to hold as much enchanted beauty as she holds for Gatsby. He falls in love with that beauty, and Daisy has become his one and only remainder and dream in life. With this, Fitzgerald is putting the blame for Gatsbys fall--his indulgence in the molest dream, and his wrong choice of means to achieve his end--on Daisy. But t... ... S. Brett and Her Lovers. Brett Ashley. Ed. Harold Bloom. raw York Chelsea stick out Publishers, 1991. 105-122. Martin, Wendy. Brett Ashley as New Woman in The Sun Also Rises. New Essays on The Sun Also Rises. Ed. Linda Wagner -Martin. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1987. 65-82. Works Consulted Hemingway, Ernest. The Unpublished Opening of The Sun Also Rises. (5-8). Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Letter to Ernest Hemingway (June 1926). (8). Whitlow, Roger. Bitches and Other Simplistic Assumptions. (148-156). Cohen, Milton A. Circe and Her Swine. (157-165). Bloom, Harold. Brett Ashley. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. McCay, bloody shame A. Fitzgeralds Women Beyond Winter Dreams. (311-324). Fleischmann, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisited Essays in Feminist Criticism. Boston G. K. pressure group & Co., 1982.