![]() ![]() One day when Jake takes Cohn with him to have lunch, he informs him about Brett shortly going to marry Mike Campbell, a Scottish soldier, which infuriates Cohn. Although Jake is aware of this, forgives Cohn and continues their friendship. Cohn has had a sexual relationship with Brett in the past and she doesn’t want him anymore but he is obsessed with her. ![]() It could be the reason that Jake is impotent due to a war injury. Their complicated relationship shows love on the one side and obsession of Ashley with sex on the other side. One day Jake takes Cohn to a dance club where he meets his unpredictable sweetheart, Brett Ashley, with whom he has already met in England during WWI where she tends to him for the wound he has suffered during the war.īrett, now, is a divorced twice, a socialite with numerous sexual affairs. He visits Jake quite often and stresses upon him to accompany him to South America but he refuses. Jake, a war veteran, works for a newspaper to earn his living contrary to Cohn, who is a wealthy American Jewish expatriate, even though not a war veteran, lives in Paris with his obsessive and controlling girlfriend Frances Clyne. The story of the novel shows Jake Barnes engaged in describing his friend Robert Cohn, who now works in Paris. ![]()
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