Thursday, April 19, 2012

Is Judy Jones another Lady Ashley?

After reading through, "Winter Dreams," I saw many similar traits.  One is their interest in usually masculine events.  Brett enjoys watching all of the bullfight, and Miss Jones wanted to play golf.  They also share a masculine like promiscuity and cheat on their man constantly.  They both also have a man-pet that is wholly in love with them and reveal their insecurities to.  Brett confides in Jake, and Judy in Dexter.  Jake is told by Brett all of her social woes and problems with the men she is with, while Judy does the same thing and cries in front of Dexter multiple times, each time admitting something massively personal.  They both also entertain the idea out loud of the lives they could have had with their respected man-pet.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Babylon Revisited

After reading through The Sun Also Rises, I found the picture painted of Paris to be much different.  There is parties and drinking throughout Paris in Hemingway's book, but the world Fitzgerald paints is far from that.  Right off the bat it explains that this is a different Paris.  The stock market crash made the expatriates scatter and the tourists simply did not have the money to go there anymore, and the people who are there are out of money as well.  It's gives an, from what I can assume, a very accurate picture of the time. The way it deteriorates from the swinging 20's to the crushed early 30's makes the event seem that much more severe.  Granted, people from Hemingway's perspective were very disillusioned, but at least they could afford booze.