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A panel presentation this week has brought up the idea of Brett as a motherly figure in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises . This raised up quite the discussion in class, and I would like to build off of these ideas by bringing to the table my own ideas of the familial relationships they have within the group, if the characters of this novel were seen as a family. The first character of the family that I will focus on, of course, is the mother, Lady Brett Ashley . As most of the plot is revolved around her and her decisions, the male characters are naturally drawn towards her, and most of them long for her attention. She has a maternal leadership aspect, where the boys follow her and will accept/tend to whatever she pleases to do. Brett also comforts like a maternal figure, as shown in the scene when Jake is lying face down on the bed when he is upset about not being able to be with Brett. On page 62, Brett strokes his head and calls him “poor old darling”. This scene hi...

- a response to the movie, The Hours - As I was beginning to watch The Hours (the movie), the connections between the three main storylines were not at all clear to me. In fact, they seemed very distant, and even as I began to put several pieces together, I was still figuring out which characters I knew from the book and which ones weren't from the book. As the movie went on and built, however, the connections became much clearer and some were so shocking/cleverly planned that I had to force myself to pause the movie in order to allow myself to fully grasp the scene/character connection reveal. In this post, I would like to highlight some of the connections as well as contrasts that I was able to make between the book Mrs. Dalloway and the movie The Hours . The Woman in the Mirror As the camera switches between snippets of the three storylines in the beginning of the movie, the focus is on each woman waking up from her bed. As they get ready, each of the three main char...

As we have started reading through and discussing in class some of Hemingway's background and also the background of  The Sun Also Rises , we have oftentimes mentioned the "Lost Generation". For benefit of analyses: the Lost Generation refers to the generation who came of age after surviving World War I. Because of the damaging mental and physical effects of the war, the young adults, who were on their way to adulthood and the start of their own lives, felt lost. They were left confused and unable to figure out where and how to start their adulthoods after tragic events have happened to them and/or their loved ones during the war.  After our brief background discussion on Hemingway’s connection to the Lost Generation, I realized that the description of these post-war dispirited young people matched the image of Septimus very closely. Septimus, as we have often discussed, was a post-war veteran who endured numerous tragic events during his time serving in the war, the ...