Brett Ashley and the novel The Sun Also Rises

I must admit that my views of Brett Ashley be possessed of now changed upon reading material the article by Lorie Watkins Fulton. I think that it is very easy to blamed her and her manipulative and destructive tendencies for the evil that works itself into the novel The Sun in any case Rises. That is the everywhereriding conclusion not only of the narrator Jake Barnes, but too of nearly every of the critics of the work to date. That creates a rather compelling school principal of view for us. However, I now find it hard to place either of the blame on her character and am beginning to wonder if she is, in fact, maligned. Fulton makes a great case remunerate a modality by reminding us of the completely paradoxical nature of Hemingways narrative. If we are to believe that is original of the whole story, then it becomes hard to see Ashley only in one lightheaded. How are we to believe that everyone else in the book is multi-layered but poor Ashley? why should we trust Barn es close this one aspect and observation of his when he proves not trustworthy about the others? Fin everyy, and close to convincingly, it is hard to blame Ashley when we read of Jake Barnes seemingly flawed personal observations and biases that he brings to the table his words about the salad days girl down on the street own up to the fact that he sees her as a manipulator just like all of her sex are.This outlandish assignment of character flaw with gender should have provided a go forful lens by means of which we could begin to see Ashley in a much more than favorable light. It shows the power of literary critics in influencing us to one point of view, just as effectively as Jake Barnes did.Langston Hughes main theme and main concern is the loneliness and struggle of the vague man, the Negro. This poem is crafted well to show us this theme in a different and unexpected light. Rather than explaining the struggles the Negro faces, and cataloging all of the well cognize fac ts of race in America, Hughes compares it to other elements that tell the same story metaphorically. It is as if Hughes has decided that anyone reading The Weary Blues is already familiar with the issues and raw material facts and is ready for a new way of seeing the history through one person but for all people. His poem takes on seeming to demonstrate his concern.The title seems obvious it must be about the slip of song the old man is singing. Surely it is, but its more than that. The poem puts the color blue right up there at the top for us to see the tribulation and tiredness that Negros feel. Hughes then goes on to tell us the plight of the stern man through use of the artists palette. We see pale on line 5, jet black on line 9, ivory on line 9, black on line 15, and of course blues 7 different times. Why all the color? Hughes theme is the tired condition of the blacks struggle, the sweep over and consuming aspect of it. His use of colors speaks loudly. Blues, of course, represents the all present sadness of the people. That is clear. That is easy. But look at the other things going on, too. Pale light is a diminished opportunity. The black man is not allowed the full brightness level of spectrum, the American dream.It is in sharp contrast to that enjoyed by the white race. Hughes says this by not just saying that the black man is playing a piano down there on the avenue. That wouldnt be enough. What he says is that he had his ebony hands on each ivory list (9). That contrast of ebony and ivory, black and white, says it all. Everything we hear from the black man, the mourning of the blues, is a discussion and revelation of his everlasting struggle as a black man in a white world.The story of Mrs. Turpin in revealing is one of those stories that really gets into me and make me emergency to take part. I want to get right in and grab Mrs. Turpin by the shoulders with my reactions She may be the biggest hypocrite I have ever read about. What makes h er that way the most to me is that she is constantly referring to her position as given by delivery boy himself. OConnor writes that Mrs. Turpin was made a better class by Jesus decision, and that Jesus is perfectly aware that there are umteen worse classes of people.She refers to this pardon over and over while reminding herself what a good type of woman she is, what a god fearing woman she is, when the reader wants to just grab her and agitate her up from this delusion. I see the opportunities for grace everywhere for Mrs. Turpin. Where she sees so many faults in other people, she could have talked with them instead of to them. She could have offered to really aid them and not in a self-serving manner like when she helped Claude to a chair by announcing just how much they deserved one over the others who had been there first. I really thought that she might really make out the grace instead of just an opportunity for it when she got home and started thinking about the wart hogs. It seemed like she really got it for once.But then she sees those black folk and gets right back on her horse, and she has them make her feel better about the way she is She knew that if she raised doubts about herself they would make her feel superior again, by lifting her up, and by making themselves look stupid to her Sadly this is one of the ways that I see this work as Southern, too. It keeps returning to basic themes of race and holiness over and over. It is a story of defining class and making confident(predicate) everyone knows their place accordingly. This is a hallmark of Southern type stories.