Summary After his return from a trip to America, Robert Cohn visits Jake Barnes in the offices of the newspaper where Jake works, in Paris. Cohn suggests a trip to South America, even offering to pay Jake’s way, but Jake declines, suggesting British East Africa and then encouraging Cohn to […]
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Summary Chapter I introduces us to Robert Cohn, who will serve as a foil to the novel’s narrator and protagonist, Jake Barnes. Cohn is descended from two prominent New York Jewish families. He encountered anti-Semitism in college, at Princeton, and learned to box as a response to it. Soon after […]
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Jake Barnes An American veteran of World War I who lives and works as a journalist in Paris during the 1920s. Robert Cohn A young American novelist living in Paris at the same time. Unlike Jake, Cohn did not fight in the war. Brett, Lady Ashley An Englishwoman loved by […]
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Like Hemingway’s later novel A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises offers the reader two stories in one: a war story and a love story. What’s remarkable about this book — truly radical, really — is the fact that it features no scenes of battle whatsoever (not even in […]
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Chapter I of The Sun Also Rises introduces us to the novelist Robert Cohn, a graduate of Princeton University who married a wealthy woman and founded a literary journal soon after college. When Cohn’s wife left him, he became involved with a woman named Frances Clyne, and they traveled together […]
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