ABSTRACT
In this chapter dealing with The Sun Also Rises, the world portrayed is new, deviant, aberrant and conflicted, with a multiplicity of gender and sexuality. The under-current of homoeroticism reaches the crescendo with the entry of Pedro Romero. In the Jake-Brett-Pedro encounters, the status of gender becomes free-floating and fluid, as it emerges here radically independent of sex. Brett subverts and challenges societal categories of male and female behaviour, gender role-playing and patriarchal phallocratic authority. The actions of Jake and Brett transcend the boundaries of masculinity/femininity and heterosexuality/homosexuality as the duo destabilise these categories.
