The Sun Also Rises: Brett

"She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking." -pg. 34

There are some people who had a deep soul, and that is an easy quality to give a charcter in a book. Brett thinks beyond what is happening or who she is with. That is why she has such an overqhelming personality and a stronghold on men. She represents the people who looked beyond that era, to what the future might hold for not only themselves, but their acquaintances also. She was a free spirit, but a grounded one. Those are the kinds of people who kept society from falling to pieces. They knew that eventually the post-war party would end, and they had to be prepared. She never got too drunk, and she kept an idea of who could help her the most. That is why she could always move on.