Well the rest of the book was pretty much the same, except there was a little more serious drama going on. Lady Ashley, once again not caring about her fiancee decides she wants the 19 year old bull fighter Pedro Romero in bed. When it comes to men Lady Ashley get's what she wants. As I mentioned in my last post Cohn left the group. I didn't go on to explain how he did but it was with a bang. After finding out that Brett was with Romero in a rage he knocks Jake and Mike out at the cafe. Goes to Brett's room and gives Pedro Romero a piece of his mind, making his beautiful face all messed up. Then after all this blubbering like a baby asks for forgiveness, then leaves the next morning.  

The Sun Also Rises

      Going into this book I did not really have an idea about what to suspect. After reading the first few pages I thought I was about to be told a story by Jake Barnes about Robert Cohn. However so far The Sun Also Rises really does not focus Cohn, but rather Jake Barnes. 
      Basically all that has happened so far in this book is Cohn and Barnes go out drinking what seems like every night to bars around Paris. An interesting character that is introduced a little later in the novel is Lady Ashley, who goes by the name Brett. Despite Brett's stunning looks she kind of seems like just one of the boys as she goes out drinking with Cohn and Barnes every night indulging in the same amount of alcohol as everyone else. 
      Jake Barnes and Lady Ashley have a weird relationship together. Although they're in love with each other they cannot get married because Lady Ashley already is planning to be married to someone else. Despite this she is not afraid to proclaim her love for Jake, yet they can never be together. 
      After my first reading session this book seems a little repetitive. They drink every night and do little work. Hopefully things will start to pick up once they embark to Spain with everyone invited: Cohn, Barnes, Brett, Bill Gorton Chon's friend, and Mike Campbell Brett's fiancee.

     I really enjoyed reading about Bill and Jake's trip to Burguete, Spain to fly fish. Hiking and fishing on a river all day in the mountains was one of the things that I did on my spring break in Colorado--minus the excessive amounts of alcohol. Cohn decides to back out of the fishing trip to go meet Brett and Mike in San Sebastian, then accompany them to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. Cohn has had a romantic weekend getaway with Brett before they all left in San Sebastian. Once again Brett has slept around with another man while being engaged. 
     After the fishing trip comes to a close everyone finally meets up in Pamplona, the main goal, for the fiesta and bull fights. Once again, Jake Barnes and his friends indulge in alcohol. Way too much alcohol. This dysfunctional group of adults drowns the problems they have with each other by being drunk pretty much all the time. Despite one drunken fight so far between Mike and Robert Cohn. Mike finally is addressing the issue that Cohn slept with his fiancee, and not only is Mike mad at Cohn, but everyone seems to not like him. Surprisingly the first character that I was introduced to now is gone as Cohn finally picks up on the hatred that is directed towards him and decides to leave the fiesta. 
     The fiesta carries on without Cohn and the party continues to drown themselves in alcohol. The bull fights are attended and the highlight of them is the 19 year old prodigy Pedro Romero, who catches the eyes of everyone especially Lady Ashley. The characters in this book just seem to care about nothing at all. They just worry about having a good time as the throw money away like it's nothing even though they are all pretty much broke. Hemingway wrote the perfect novel about the "Lost Generation." Every character is disillusioned after the first world war and the way they deal with it is by spending money on alcohol to drown their problems in.
      Really I'm surprised I haven't gotten bored with this book yet due to the fact that nothing has really happened. They wake up and eat, then begin drinking, then go to the bull fights, then drink more, and why they're doing this the whole time they're still drinking. Yet, I am still engrossed in this story, perhaps just to see if anything will ever really happen.