Similarities Between Jake And Cohn
In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, one can make a comparison between Jake and Cohn. Aside from sharing certain hobbies they share the same woman as the target of their affection as well as both being outsiders of the group they pretend to form. As similar as they are in some aspects, they both are considered outsiders but under different terms. Jake has the privilege to become an outsider at his whim meanwhile Cohn was not even able to get inside from the start. Both Jake and Cohn are writers but they both have different reasons to write. Cohn did it for leisure and found time to write his book when one winter “Robert Cohn went over to America with his novel” (16). Cohn, already a wealthy individual, did not need the money. Jake wrote because he needed the money. Jake was in the newspaper business
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While both of them share Brett, they share her in different ways. Jake had a connection to Brett as Brett was in love with Jake. While driving out of the club, Brett talks about a conversation she previously had with another man attempting to woo her and she “…told him that I [Brett] was in love with you [Jake]” (41). As the story progresses, the reader finds out that Jake and Brett had a dysfunctional relationship because something about Jake was also “dysfunctional”. Continuing the story, Cohn is found to be love struck by Brett, although she does not feel the same way towards him, he manages to bed her. During the trip to Spain, Mike confirms Cohn’s deed by rhetorically asking “What if Brett did sleep with you?” (146). While it is true that an argument could be made that Cohn might have gotten farther in his relationship with Brett, their relationship was not going to necessarily work out. The biggest dilemma in their relationship was that Brett began to find Cohn annoying. In this love triangle it is clear that Jake and Cohn have Brett in common, they have shared very distinct relationships with
While both of them share Brett, they share her in different ways. Jake had a connection to Brett as Brett was in love with Jake. While driving out of the club, Brett talks about a conversation she previously had with another man attempting to woo her and she “…told him that I [Brett] was in love with you [Jake]” (41). As the story progresses, the reader finds out that Jake and Brett had a dysfunctional relationship because something about Jake was also “dysfunctional”. Continuing the story, Cohn is found to be love struck by Brett, although she does not feel the same way towards him, he manages to bed her. During the trip to Spain, Mike confirms Cohn’s deed by rhetorically asking “What if Brett did sleep with you?” (146). While it is true that an argument could be made that Cohn might have gotten farther in his relationship with Brett, their relationship was not going to necessarily work out. The biggest dilemma in their relationship was that Brett began to find Cohn annoying. In this love triangle it is clear that Jake and Cohn have Brett in common, they have shared very distinct relationships with