Pedro RomeroĪlthough Romero appears only briefly in the novel, his presence is crucial, as he is the only man who seems capable of manipulating Brett.
Cohn's one strength is that he is an excellent boxer, a skill developed to compensate for his inferiority complex. Jake, who shares certain feelings of inferiority with Cohn, sometimes sympathizes with his plight, but frequently Jake enjoys it and does not intervene when Cohn is humiliated.
Quiet and willing to take abuse, he is disliked by everyone in Jake's circle, especially Mike, who resents him for his fling with Brett and the way he follows her around pathetically. He is romantically involved with Frances at the start of the novel, dominated by her as he was by his former wife. He represents American pre-war romanticism and idealism, and it is often painful to watch him pitted against a world that has lost these beliefs. Robert CohnĪ Jewish novelist from Princeton, Cohn the only central male character not a war veteran, and perhaps because of this he is the only one whose values have not been fully compromised. Brett is the strongest, most conventionally "masculine" character in the novel, dominating her lovers and manipulating them like a bull-fighter she even has a short haircut and refers to herself as a "chap." However, in her carelessly dominating relationships with Jake, Mike, Cohn, and Romero, she appears to be dependent on them as well she needs men to let her be dominant. She met Jake as a volunteer nurse when he was in the hospital during the war, but she is now engaged to Mike Campbell. Brett (Lady Ashley)Īlthough the true antagonist in the novel is the lack of values and direction of the Lost Generation, Brett comes closest to personifying this malaise and provoking it in others as she consistently manipulates Jake and makes him undermine his sense of self. Overall, Jake represents the worst of the Lost Generation - irresponsible, aimless, and bitter, his life seems over before it has begun. He spends his days and nights living irresponsibly and drinking heavily with his friends, none of whom he seems to care about too deeply, such as Robert Cohn. His other passion besides Brett is bull-fighting he is considered a true aficionado of the sport. His submissive pursuit of her often undermines his values and sense of self-worth. He desires Brett, with whom he developed a relationship while in the war hospital, but cannot have her because of his physical condition. He is a veteran of WWI and has an injury from it which, it appears, has left him impotent.
The simple sentences and incomplete descriptions frees your imagination and inspires each person to develop their own bitter love story.The protagonist and narrator of the novel, Jake is a young American expatriate working in a Paris newspaper office. Hemingway’s language is effective in leaving much to the readers interpretation and allowing a different image to form in each readers mind. The baby could not be born alive because their love was beautiful yet doomed so that nothing could come out of it. Their love during an ugly war was not to be recreated or modeled even as much as through a baby conceived by their love. The love that Frederick and Catherine had for each other was more than could be explained in words and Frederick makes it known that words are not really effective at describing the flesh and blood details. In a world where the abstracts of glory, honor, and sacrifice meant little to Frederick, his physical association with Catherine was the only thing he had and it was taken away from him long before she died. The escape to Switzerland seemed too perfect for a book that set a tone of ugliness in the world that was only dotted with pure love like Henry’s and Cat’s and I knew the story couldn’t end with bliss in the slopes of Montreux. Floating down the river with barely a hold on a piece of wood his life, he abandons everything except Catherine and lets the river take him to a new life that becomes increasing difficult to understand. Frederick’s actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in SAR seemed to have no direction. The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises.
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