![]() ![]() 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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