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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