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She doesn't want to ruin Romero's career (or his life), and has decided to recommit to Mike Campbell. Days after escaping to Madrid with her young lover, Brett telegrams Jake in San Sebastian and asks him to pick her up and take her back to Paris. After the bullfight, Brett and Pedro flee to Madrid to enjoy each other's company alone.īrett's bliss is short-lived. Despite his wounds, Pedro performs magnificently the next day, killing the bull that fatally gored a man in the streets. In a jealous rage, Cohn physically assaults Jake, Mike, and Pedro. Brett falls in love with Pedro Romero, Spain's young and renowned matador. Major events transpire in quickly unfolding scenes. The second round of inebriated waywardness occurs in Pamplona, when the five friends are together again. Love-struck Robert Cohn decides to wait for Brett to arrive, and when she does he follows her around constantly. When their arrival is delayed, Jake and Bill go to the village of Burguete to fish. Brett and Mike (her fiancÉ) make arrangements to meet Bill and Jake in Spain.

Jake and Bill want to fish and attend the festival at Pamplona. The five acquaintances plan a trip to Spain. While they are gone, Bill Gorton, a transient friend of Jake's, arrives in Paris. Unfortunately, when they return to Paris, neither goal has been accomplished. Brett hopes to escape from her feelings for Jake, and Cohn hopes to win Brett's heart. Several weeks after meeting, Brett and Robert Cohn travel to San Sebastian together. Robert Cohn is falling in love with Brett.

Because of this injury, Brett refuses to be in a romantic relationship with Jake.

During the drunken escapades that ensue, we learn a few key things: (Cohn is one of a number of Jake's friends who live the Lost Generation lifestyle.) This is the start of a series of restless wanderings that mark the progression of the novel. At the start of the novel, Jake tells the reader about his friend Robert Cohn, who is trying to convince Jake to leave Paris for a short trip to South America.

The narrator of THE SUN ALSO RISES is Jake Barnes, and he is the character who most closely resembles Ernest Hemingway. This novel is a classic example of the writing style that became Hemingway's trademark: sparsely written prose and terse dialogue that introduced a unique, less-is-more approach to American storytelling. Published in 1926, it captures some of the elements that defined the author: the emotional turmoil of life after World War I the lingering effects of a war wound the appreciation of nature and other cultures and the experience of being among American expatriats in Paris in the 1920s. THE SUN ALSO RISES is perhaps Ernest Hemingway's most autobiographical novel. American Masters | Prairie to Paris | Thirteen Ed Online