【正文】 n woman and man. Brett is a gentle and beautiful lady yet a strong modern female. She resists the real life which is imposed by the traditional patriarchal society. She chooses her own life and love bravely. Her remaining traditional femaleness makes her suffering many setbacks and hanging back. Dependents on the male characters constantly and her new femaleness makes her to break away from the domination of the man consistently. The contradiction which existence in her characteristic leads Brett can’t achieve the real harmony with the male characters. Although Brett lived extravagant life, in her mind, her idea about love was very serious and sincere. In the end of the story, Brett returned to the marriage again, although she did not love Mike at all, she still needed the traditions to gain the sense of safety and settlement. In the novel, Brett was unable to win over the male power and get out of male control in patriarchal society. A plete new woman should not have been regretful for her new women’s behavior. However, Brett did not seem to have much happiness from her independence，because she could not pletely forget the tradition morals. Being tortured seriously by the inner struggles and sense of guilt，Brett was not able to face the reality and future. Facing the female movement, the novel suggests that for the new women, it was impossible for women to get real independence from the men. Between men and women, there should not be fights or quarrels but understandings. As the new women, they should be harmonious with men can help the healthy growth of women. It is necessary that eliminate inequality between sexes and pursue for a harmonious relationship between genders.ReferencesAlbertve got to do something. I39。onve always done just what I wanted. ” (Hemingway, 1954: 202) She dared to do what she want to do even that is wrong. Brett entered the public place without any reason but relaxation and the public place were the bar and the bullfight place. At that time, those places were considered that only men can existed and not the right places for women to stay. Women who came to such places would be considered disturbing. Although Brett knew that ing to those places was not right, she totally rejected such a rule and did whatever she wanted. Once breaking with the traditional moral, Brett found it difficult for her to go back and she thought that she can find a right way to selfliberation and real independence in the evil world. What Brett did was for finding the equality and liberty in the society and wanting to be the center of the pubic. Being watched by men, she would feel flattered. It is obvious that Brett no longer defined herself as a new woman． In the story, Cohn, Mike and Jake was surrounding Brett. In the past, women like Brett chased by a lot of men have already married to one guy which she most likes. However, in this novel, Brett refused to mit to anyone of them, preferring remain being single. In order to breaking the traditional morals and finding the real independence, she ignored those men’s feelings and was unwilling to mit fully to any men who obsessed with her, even though she had affairs with them. As a modern woman, Brett Ashley betrayed the traditional rules and had many affairs with men. For Brett, having an affair with a man did not mean that she loved him nor wanted to marry him. She seemed just like to enjoy freedom without any restriction by men. Once she found she did not want to have relationship with that man, she would leave him without any hesitation.“Could not we live together, Brett? Could not just we live together? ” (Hemingway, 1954: 228) When Jake mentioned again the possibility of them living together, Brett treated him as a kid who was just daydreaming. Maybe, to Brett, the marriage was a kind of burden that would destroy her independence and stop her fightingagainst life in Paris, and the excitement of the Pamplona festival, with a middle section devoted to descriptions of a fishing trip in the Pyrenees. Hemingway39。n in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. It is recognized as Hemingway39。Selfconsciousness…………………………... ………………...........5 The Pursuit of Love and Happiness ………………………………………….........64. The Causes of Brett Ashley’s Failure……………..….……………. ……………8 Spiritual Dependence on Men……………... …………………... …………...........8 Financial Dependence on Men……………………………... ………………..........95. Conclusion………………………………………………………………………….10References……………………………………………………………………………………...12Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………131. Introduction Ernest Hemingway(18991961), the prolific American writer, was awarded Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. In 1926, Hemingway’s first and probably his most acplished novel The Sun Also Rises was published, which made Hemingway stand out as an international celebrity because he grasped the social changes in America after World War I and succeeded in conveying the exact feeling of the lost generation in written form. The Sun Also Rises talked about the stories of the lost generation and like other Hemingway’s works, many tough man roles were created. However, in The Sun Also Rises, he also produced a vivid female imagesthe main character “Brett Ashley” in his stories, through Brett Ashley. Since The Sun Also Rises was published, the critics from all over the world made ments about