The Sun Also Rises

Jake and Bill return to Pamplona after they receive a telegram from both Mike and Cohn. They had the same plan of leaving the same night, so they decide to go and have four flasks value of celebratory wine with their friend Harris. Harris is left somewhat feeling sentimental. Jake had received a letter from Mike informing him of the news that Brett had fainted on the train. Mike and Brett had stayed in San Sebastian for three days and would arrive in Pamplona on a Wednesday.

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The chapter brings out Jake's jealous belief that Mike and Brett had stopped in San Sebastian for a romantic getaway. However, the point that Brett had stopped there to see him, prove Cohn to be wrong. Brett had just gotten sick. Apparently there was a huge party that had been organized, and they were excited because the level of dishonesty had clearly been completely scanty up until that point. Jake is passionately excited about the bull-fights. He is a real aficionado.

Jake, as the owner of the Montoya Hotel, is passionately intimate with the hotelier. He smiled as though bull-fighting were a very profound secret that we knew about. He always beamed as though there were something lascivious about the secret to strangers, but that it was something we understood. It would not do to bare it to people who would not comprehend."

On arriving, they meet Brett, Mike, and Cohn at a cafe and Mike who is drunk and decides to tell anecdotes before the group head to the corrals which are outside the town. That is where they plan to see the unloading of the bulls. The bulls are as expected, very strong and dangerous. The bulls are let out into from their cage into the corral to gore various steers in the corral. However, Jake is worried she is going to get grossed out, but she retains her cool. Besides, she seems to share some of the distinctive appreciation for the bulls and perhaps a hint of the fiction that fills Jake and Montoya. Cohn is also viewed as a wimp.

Brett tags Mike to browbeat Cohn. The event happens at another cafe where they realize that Cohn had returned to San Sebastian while Bill and Jake were fishing in Burgueta. Cohn is led away by Bill to avoid a case of punches being thrown. Later in their hotel, when they are all calmed down, Bill tells Jake that he feels for Cohn.

Hemingway stages the differences in the chapter, for instance, Brett and Mike wear Basque berets, whereas Cohn is bareheaded. Even while shaking hands, Mike has "a manner of getting a force of sensitivity" into it, while Cohn shakes hands merely as a formality, "because we were back." Mike asks Cohn, "Why don't you ever get drunk, Robert?" this is an insult to him. While there is no need for Cohn to get drunk, as he has not been injured, and he has not been injured because he has not lived. He is viewed as an outsider in this chapter.

Later in the hotel it is largely agreed that an American cannot have a real passion for the bulls, but Jake is an exception. Montoya familiarizes him to his friends; they realize this and put their hands on his shoulder as if touching him formally recognizes their joint gift. Montoya is a big supporter of bullfighting to its passion, artistry, and singleness of tenacity. However, none of Jakes friends has those things, and they have e become corrupters of those values. Montoya is willing to overlook it for the benefit of Jakes. This gives Jake the membership to a special club due to the knowledge and appetite of bullfighting.

Jake and Bill find Mike and Brett at a bar across the square. They were wearing traditional local hats, and Bill asked Mike if he knew Harris in the war, to which Brett responds by saying that Mike was a distinguished soldier. She then asks him to tell them stories from the war. At first he refuses but decides to tell, finally, how he once had dinner with the Prince of Wales and that he had worn his war medals. However, he no longer had them and could not even remember what medals he had won. He had bought some medals from another man.

From this, the need for fitting follows the group into Spain. All the friends delight in any chance to try on a different culture. It is also a chance to get away from their insecure identities. The war paints Mike as a true hero and a man who won medals for bravery. It also paints him as a man who cared so little for personal achievements that he did not even keep the medals he won from the war.

Mike had recently been declared bankrupt. This, Mike says, was as a result of having both false friends and creditors. Everyone who was listening to him started to feel a bit depressed given the unpleasant subject. It brings an end to his story, and they head down to look at the arrival of the bulls accompanied by everyone else in town.With all the glory of war, it means little or nothing when money is what matters and Mike had lost all that he had. When men are depressed, it is portrayed, that they turn to sports as a stand-in for war.

The gates to the cages are lifted where they had been pulled by men and mules. The bulls charge out of their enclosures, furious and muscles quaking when released. Moreover, the steers (castrated males) mill around to help calms the bulls. Jake tries to explain to Brett how the bull uses its horns like a boxer; another bull is let out of its cage and goes one of the steers. By the end of the unloading, the injured steer is alone, and the other steers have formed a herd.

Cohn jokes on how he would not want to be a steer. Mike erupts in fury, saying that Cohn is precisely like a steer with Brett, as they are always following her everywhere. Bill takes the saddened Cohn for a walk to cool him down. Mike, for the moment, says that Brett is very open about her matters with men, but that not any of them were Jews who loiter like Cohn. As things snuggle down, they all resolve not to let it destroy the fiesta and to behave as though nothing has transpired, to blame it on being drunk.

Montoya and Jack, back at the hotel, agree that the bulls looked all right, but that they have a bad feeling about them. Despite everything that night, the group had a nice meal. Brett looks fabulous in a black dress, and Cohn watches her obstinately. Jake compares it to dinners during the war, when everyone ignored the tension, and there was a feeling of unavoidability. His night culminates with him feeling happy and affectionate to everyone.

There is unsolved bad feeling about the bulls is worrying. Men in the war had to ignore the pressure of the likelihood of death coming at any second because that was the only way to continue working. The tactics of ignoring pressure works sometimes well in normal life, too, as this pleasant meal shows. In real life, overlooking things can never last for long.