The Sun Also Rises Robert Cohn Analysis

This paper is concerned with the way that Robert Cohn is portrayed considering his actions, immaturity, and relationships that lead to his anti-exemplary behavior in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Cohn is a character who does not seem to change very much throughout the novel. While most of the characters are able to grow and learn the values, Cohn stays his immature self. These men also know how to live their lives to the fullest. It is evident that Cohn does not know how to live the same way that the Count and Romero do. “Hemingway begins by making us feel sympathetic for Cohn” (Donaldson 29). Being that Jake Barnes is the narrator, he is able to explain his relationship with Cohn throughout the novel. Jake begins my being cautious of who Cohn is. By the end of the paper, it is evident that Jake was right about who Cohn really is. He is just a child. When the novel novel begins by introducing Cohn. This shows that he is a
In chapter 1, after they discuss all of Cohn’s boxing accomplishments, Jake states “I have never met any one of his class who remembered him” (Hemingway 11). This shows that even though Cohn was very good at something, no one had the interest of forming any type of relationship with Cohn. As chapter 1 goes on, Jake begins to discuss the very few relationships that Cohn does have. H begins by explaining that Cohn “was married to the first girl who was nice to him” (Hemingway 12). Unfortunately, Cohn was only able to hang on to his marriage for 5 years. Besides the wife that Cohn pursued, he only had two other friends. Jake mentions that “Robert Cohn had two friends, Braddocks and myself. Baraddocks was his literary friend. I was his tennis friend.” (Hemingway 13). It is evident that Cohn did not have the skills to maintain a variety of friends. He is not even able to keep more than one friend inside either of his favorite