Daisy Buchanan of The Great Gatsby and Brett Ashley of The Sun Also Rises Written immediately after the publication of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is apparently affected many ways. Fitzgerald's most obvious influence appears in Hemingway's portrayal of his heroine, Brett Ashley. Numerous critics have noted and discussed the similarities between Brett and Daisy Buchanan, and rightly so; but the two women also have fundamental differences. Compared to Daisy, Brett is a more complete and complex character, and Hemingway treated her with more sympathy than Fitzgerald treated Daisy. Some similarities between Brett Ashley and Daisy Buchanan include their physical beauty, their extravagant/flamboyant lifestyles, and their unhappy marriages. However, their most important similarity is the destructive influence they have on their suitors. Daisy attracts Jay Gatsby with her beauty, not only with her physical appearance, but also with the whole carefree, comfortable and luxurious lifestyle: Gatsby was absolutely aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many dresses and of Daisy, shining like silver, confident and proud above the fiery struggles of the poor (157). For Gatsby, the rich life is temptingly desirable because he was the same as Daisy herself. His life, far from harsh struggles, seems to contain the same enchanted beauty that it reserves for Gatsby. He falls in love with that beauty and Daisy has become his only goal and dream in life. By this, Fitzgerald is placing the blame for Gatsby's downfall - his indulging in the wrong dream and choosing the wrong means to achieve his end - on Daisy. .. S. "Brett and his lovers." Brett Ashley. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. 105-122. Martin, Wendy. “Brett Ashley as the New Woman in The Sun Also Rises.” New essays also on The Sun Rises. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 65-82. Works consulted: Hemingway, Ernest. "Also the unreleased opening of The Sun Rises." (5-8). Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Letter to Ernest Hemingway (June 1926)." (8). Whitlow, Roger. “Bitches and Other Simplistic Assumptions.” (148-156). Cohen, Milton A. "Circe and Her Pigs." (157-165).Bloom, Harold. Brett Ashley. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991. McCay, Mary A. “Fitzgerald's Women: Beyond Winter Dreams.” (311-324).Fleischmann, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisited: Essays in Feminist Criticism. Boston: GK Hall & Co., 1982.