


In private Brett reveals to Jake that she spent the last few weeks in Spain with Cohn.īill and Jake take a train to the south of France, where they meet Cohn. Brett and Mike ask to accompany Jake and Bill to Pamplona. Before they leave, Jake and Bill run into Brett, who has recently returned from Spain, and her fiancé, Mike. Together, Jake and Bill decide to go to Spain to attend the Fiesta de San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain, to see the running of the bulls and the bullfights. Both Brett and Cohn eventually leave Paris: Brett sets off for San Sebastian (a small beach town in Spain) and Cohn for the countryside.Ī few weeks after their departure, the writer Bill Gorton (another of Jake’s friends) arrives in Paris. When Cohn confesses his romantic interest in Brett to Jake, Jake cautions him against pursuing a relationship with Brett, who is engaged to be married to Mike Campbell, a Scottish war veteran. Although it is not said explicitly, it is implied that they are not together because Jake is impotent and Brett unwilling to give up sex. Jake and Brett met and fell in love during the war, when Brett, a volunteer nurse, helped treat Jake’s injuries. Jake’s former lover, Brett, also lives in Paris. How much do you really know about the stories and the authors of the classics you love, from Jane Eyre to Brave New World?

