He also challenged typical gender roles by creating a relationship between the two that was a fairly close friendship but entirely platonic and devoid of physical action. You could see the irony in Jake's virile and challenging men with his dominant male agenda because if you were to step back and focus on the real Jake, you would notice how vulnerable and emotionally driven he truly was. They would see a man who does not represent the gender role assigned to him by society. So if you looked at Brett, you wouldn't even see a woman who decided to conform to society's norms. Instead, they would see a woman who knew what she wanted, took what she wanted, and didn't care what others thought of her. When Hemingway creates these two characters, he creates entirely new archetypes that will be used in literary works from that point on. Archetypes where the masculine definition may indeed include vulnerability, although it does not free male characters from their more stereotypical gender roles of protector and provider. In other words, Hemingway redefines manhood to include more feminine attributes, but he does not free men from the shackles of their past roles so that, in essence, the new man has even more expectations placed on him. The archetype it creates is not only responsible