Mike invites himself and Brett along, and they arrange to rendezvous in the nearby town of Pamplona. Jake writes to Robert Cohn in Spain to say that he and Bill will meet Cohn at Bayonne (near the French-Spanish border) to go fishing together near the Spanish village of Burguete. They are joined by Brett, back from San Sebastian, and Mike Campbell, her fiancé.
Jake's friend Bill Gorton visits Paris, severely intoxicated. Jake receives a postcard from Brett in San Sebastian, as well as a note from Cohn saying that he's leaving the country for a while it is rumored that Frances has gone to England. Later, Brett admits to Jake that she feels miserable, apparently due to her unfulfilled love for him. She also tells him that she is about to travel to San Sebastian, a coastal town in the Basque region of Spain. She replies that doing so is impossible because she would be tempted to cheat on him. When Brett and the Count visit Jake's apartment, Jake tells Brett he loves her and asks if they can live together. The next day, Cohn speculates that he may be in love with Brett, and Frances tells Jake that she believes Cohn plans to break up with her. Jake tries to kiss Brett, but she withdraws, telling him that although she loves him, she "can't stand it." (Apparently, Jake has been castrated in combat during the Great War and cannot consummate his love for Brett.) They rejoin their friends and are joined in turn by a Greek Count named Mippipopolous before Jake returns to his apartment, where he lies in bed, drunk and miserable. Cohn is attracted to Brett, but she leaves the club with Jake. The group goes dancing at a nightclub, where a woman named Brett (also known as Lady Ashley, because she is, by marriage, a titled British aristocrat) appears. Later, Jake picks up a prostitute named Georgette, and the two of them join a group including Cohn, Frances, and some others. It is the mid-1920's.Ĭohn visits the story's narrator and main character, Jake Barnes, in the Paris offices of the newspaper for which Jake works. When Cohn's wife left him, he became involved with a woman named Frances Clyne, and they traveled together to Paris, where they are living at the start of the novel's action. Chapter I of The Sun Also Rises introduces us to the novelist Robert Cohn, a graduate of Princeton University who married a wealthy woman and founded a literary journal soon after college.
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