Jake invites Cohn to drink when he gets tired of his annoyance. To this, Jake replies that only bullfighters have the potential to live their lives to the fullest. Cohn is worried that he is not living his life the way he must live it. When Cohn returns to Paris, he comes to the office of Jack to convince him to accompany him on the trip to South America. Wanderlust infects Cohn because of his success that is combined with the reading of the romantic chronicle of English gentlemen. Cohn also wins a playing bridge of several hundred dollars. His novel is praised by different publishers, and many women are interested in and “nice” to him. To publish his novel, Cohn travels to New York that winter. When the dinner is over, Cohn follows Jake to tell him that he should not mention the girl as Frances will not let him go on any trip that involves seeing a girl. Before Jakes notice France’s look of displeasure, Cohn kicks Jake under the table to hint at him. Jake insisted on going to Strasbourg, northwestern France, as he knows a girl there who would show them the place around. Jake and Cohn decide on taking a weekend trip. When Jake dines with Cohn and Frances on the night, he gets to know about France’s attitude.

When Frances starts aging and loses her beauty, she starts convincing Cohn to marry her, and her attitude changes from careless manipulation to strongly determined. While in Paris, Cohn starts writing and completes a novel. When the magazine failed to succeed, Frances convinced him to take her to Paris so as to join the expatriates of postwar.Ĭohn could only make a few friends in Paris. Cohn also gets involved with a manipulative status-seeker, Frances Clyne, in California. In California and spent most of his time in literary groups. Cohn shifted to California after divorce. He had three children.Ĭohn lost his inheritance of fifty thousand, and his wife also left him after five years when he decided to leave her. After graduation, he soon married to rebound his unhappy college experiences. He became a middleweight champion of the university.

Cohn tossed himself to boxing to avoid the feeling of inferiority and face his shyness. Cohn struggled with anti-Semitism at Princeton. Corn belongs to a rich Jewish family living in New York. Jake Barnes opens the novel by describing Robert Cohn. The narrator and protagonist of the novel is Jake Barnes.

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