Group 2 Blog Post

In this week's blog post I wanted to focus on the relationships of the characters in Ernest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises.

 What I find interesting in the story is the scene where Jake finds out that Cohn had gone to meet Brett at San Sebastian in Spain, "Brett looked at me ' I say,' she said, 'is Robert Cohn going on this trip?' 'Yes. Why?' 'Don't you think it will be rough on him?' 'Why shoud it?' 'Who do you think I went down to San Sebastian with?' 'Congratulations,' I said" (Chapter 9, Page 89). Jake has been in love Brett for such a long time now and Cohn is a friend of Jake's. So a question remains...

Is there a reason why Jake wasn't told earlier that Cohn and Brett had spent time in San Sebastian. Cohn knows that Jake has been in love with Brett ever since he has met her. Is Cohn really a friend of Jake's?

After Jake finds out about the news he decides to mess around with Cohn.

Is it possible that there could be a bigger conflict between Cohn and Jake later in the story?

Comments

  1. Alison LillaNovember 12, 2018 at 4:03 PM

    I definitely think Cohn and Jake are going to get in an argument. It seems weird that Cohn would try to sleep with Brett if he knew Jake had been in love with her, and that he would go on a trip with Mike, Brett's fiance, there. I think Hemingway wants to show Cohn as extremely socially inept and unlikable to the point that we would see Cohn as the bad friend, as opposed to Jake being the bad friend because Jake hates Cohn.

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