Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Sun Also Rises: Cohn

"I hate him, too...I hate his damned suffering." -pg. 186

Cohn never bothered me, but everyone in the book seemed to have a bone to pick with him. Mike hated him because he was obsessed with his fiance. Bill hated him because he was a Jew with a superiority complex. Jake hated him also because he was with Brett. The poor guy was uninvited everywhere he went. The book started out talking about him, and how he was a boxer. It eventually came back to that towards the end of the novel when he punched Mike and Jake. No matter what the other characters thought, I thought he was just a guy who had two bad marriages and thought maybe he had found someone who really loved him.

1 comment:

  1. were you sympathetic to Cohn because everyone treated him so poorly?

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