Lady Brett Ashley certainly is not the typical woman who has beauty and is fashionable, but is instead described as beautiful, even when she has characteristics of a man. Through this article, Stephanie LaCava goes through Hemingway’s unusual description of the described “siren”. As the reader knows, Hemingway describes Lady Brett Ashley as a sort of tomboy in the sense that she covers her frame with a thin crewneck sweater, has an androgynous hair style, and wears guy style hats, but that doesn’t tell the reader what her outer beauty looks like. LaCava tells of a quote in The Sun Also Rises, that all the reader can visualize about Brett’s features was that her face was white and she had a long neckline. Even though Lady Ashley was described
