Mike and Brett also want to come to Pamplona. That afternoon, Jake runs into Brett, who has returned from San Sebastian and is with her fiancé Mike.

They plan to go fishing in Spain and then to go to the fiesta and bullfights in Pamplona, and to join up with Cohn along the way. Cohn also leaves Paris around this time to spend time out in the country.Ī few weeks later, a writer and army-friend of Jake's named Bill Gorton arrives in Paris. In a moment when they are alone, Brett tells Jake that it's too hard for them to be near each other and that she's leaving the next day to go to San Sebastian, a beach town in Spain. But in the middle of the night she appears at his apartment along with Count Mippipopolous, a rich Greek man who really knows how to enjoy life. Brett stands Jake up for their afternoon plans. Cohn is smitten by Brett, and is upset when Jake describes her in less-then-positive terms (and also when he learns that she's soon to marry a Scottish war veteran named Mike Campbell). Jake has lunch with Cohn the next morning. Still, they make plans to see each other the next afternoon. But though they never say it explicitly, the conversation implies that Jake's injury made him impotent, and that Brett is unwilling to give up sex, so they can't be together. Brett confesses to Jake that she is miserable and still loves him, just as he loves her. While she was treating him, they fell in love. Brett is an independent, tomboy-ish, soon-to-be-divorced wife of an English lord who as a volunteer during the war helped to treat Jake for a war wound he received. That night, while out with Cohn and others, Jake runs into Lady Brett Ashley.

Jake refuses, on the grounds that the only people who don't waste their lives are bullfighters. After reading a book that romanticizes travel Cohn has come to the conclusion that he's wasting his life, and one day he visits Jake, who is a journalist, at his office to ask him to take a trip with him to South America. Cohn lives with a woman named Frances Clyne, who was originally using him for his money but now that she's older wants to make him marry her.

He's a Jewish writer who has recently published a novel and was a middleweight boxing champion in college at Princeton. Cohn, like Jake, is an American expatriate living in Paris, although unlike Jake he did not fight in World War I. Jake Barnes, the narrator, describes his friend, Robert Cohn.

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