Lady Brett Ashley Character Analysis

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He was so ashamed by his wound, he cut himself off from others at time just like one of the other main characters, Lady Brett Ashley. She did not sustain a physical wound in the war but she was very much scarred by it. “She was a V.A.D during in a hospital [Jake] was in during the war” (Hemingway, 46) and “nursed Jake through his recovery” (Fulton). Because of this, she saw many things that were just as bad as what the soldiers saw. While treating people, she would’ve seen many people die including her first husband who was “just kicked off with the dysentery” (Hemingway, 46). For any person, having their husband die when they were trying to help save them is very scarring. He was just there one minute and gone the next. Besides her husband