They stay at the Hotel Montoya, the owner of which is Jake’s friend and fellow bullfighting aficionado. They return to Pamplona and meet up with Brett, Mike, and Cohn. In Burguete, Jake and Bill enjoy several days of peaceful fishing. Brett and Mike are supposed to meet up with them in Pamplona when they don’t show up, Jake and Bill leave for a fishing trip while Cohn stays behind to wait. Jake sets off for Spain with Bill and Cohn. Brett wonders if Cohn will be coming with them and reveals to Jake that he was with her in San Sebastian. That evening, they go out with Brett and Mike, who invite themselves along for the trip to Spain. Jake and Bill run into Brett, who has just returned from San Sebastian. They plan a trip to Pamplona for the bullfighting festival. Jake’s friend, Bill, a successful writer, arrives in Paris. She spends weeks in San Sebastian, where she is secretly joined by Cohn. When they’re alone, Brett tells Jake that it’s difficult for them to be around each other and that it could be beneficial to spend time apart. Much later, she brings Count Mippipopolous to Jake’s apartment. That night, Jake shows up for a date with Brett, but she drunkenly forgets. He tells Cohn that Brett plans to marry a Scottish man, Mike. The following day, Jake meets with Cohn and paints Brett in an unflattering light. She does love him however, she doesn’t want to be monogamous with an impotent man. Jake leaves in a taxi with Brett and kisses her, but she stops him. She is the love of Jake’s life and, at the club, Cohn immediately falls for her. That night, they are out at a club and Lady Brett Ashley arrives. She attempts to kiss him, but he stops her because a war wound has left him impotent. Jake meets a prostitute, Georgette, and takes her out to dinner. He asks Jake to go with him to South America, but Jake finds this idea to be naïve. After a dinner with Jake, Cohn returns to America, where he sells his second novel, and comes back to Paris with a desire to live freely and romantically. He got married and divorced and moved to Europe with his girlfriend, Frances Clyne, who uses him for the money he has left. There, he experienced anti-Semitism, which compelled him to become a boxer. Cohn is from a rich Jewish family but has squandered most of his inheritance. Jake Barnes, the narrator, provides background about his friend, Robert Cohn, also an expat American.

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