Summary The next morning, Jake awakens early and digs for worms near the inn. After Bill wakes up, they go together to breakfast, during which they joke nonsensically and tease one another. Packing a lunch, they hike together to a trout stream, where they split up in order to fish; […]
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Summary Jake and Bill set out on their fishing trip, riding a bus from Pamplona to Burguete. The Basques aboard the bus share their wine with the Americans. Finally, Jake and Bill check into an inn at Burguete, where they eat supper and go to sleep. Analysis This is a […]
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Summary The next morning, Jake, Bill, and Cohn stroll around Bayonne. Then they travel in a hired car across the border into Spain and on to Pamplona. During lunch, Cohn makes a bet with Bill that Brett and Mike will not arrive as planned, on the evening train. Jake picks […]
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Summary Jake writes to Robert Cohn in Spain to say that he and Bill will meet Cohn at Bayonne (near the French-Spanish border), to go fishing together. At a cafe that evening, Mike Campbell (who is drunk again) invites himself and Brett along on the excursion, and they arrange to […]
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Summary Jake receives a postcard from Brett in San Sebastian and a note from Cohn saying that he’s leaving France for a while; meanwhile, it is rumored that Frances has gone to England. Jake’s friend Bill visits briefly before traveling to Vienna and then Budapest. When Bill returns, he is […]
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Summary When Jake returns to his apartment, the concierge tells him that a lady and a gentleman, apparently Brett and the Count, stopped by to see him when he was out. Jake receives a telegram from his friend Bill Gorton, an American writer, saying that Bill is about to arrive […]
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Summary After Brett stands him up, Jake takes a taxi to a cafe on the Left Bank, where he has a drink with a writer named Harvey Stone. Apparently, Stone is on a drinking binge; Jake gives him money for food. They’re joined by Robert Cohn. Stone leaves to buy […]
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Summary The next morning, Jake walks to work, attends a news conference, and shares a cab with two fellow correspondents back to the office, where Robert Cohn awaits. They go out to lunch, during which Cohn quizzes Jake about Brett and speculates that he may be in love with her. […]
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Summary As they ride through the streets of Paris in a cab, Jake tries to kiss Brett, but she withdraws, telling him that, although she loves him, she “can’t stand it.” They talk elliptically about Jake’s condition before rejoining their friends at a cafe in the Montparnasse section of the […]
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Summary Sitting in an outdoor cafe, Jake picks up a prostitute named Georgette and they ride a horse-drawn cab into Paris’s Latin Quarter. Sharing dinner at a restaurant there, Jake and Georgette are discovered by a group of North Americans: Robert Cohn and Frances, Jake’s friend Braddocks and his wife, […]
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