Real Life Stories

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“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.”

Jake is talking about Robert Cohn and how he used boxing for covering up being made fun of for being Jewish and non-masculine.

 

 "The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta." 

This is not a way you want to solve problems. The characters in “The Sun Also Rises” try to escape reality by drinking and going to the fiesta. As you can see, they feel like they had no consequences when they were there, like an alternate world where all their troubles would just go away. This isn’t a way to solve problems because in the long run it just makes them worse. You need to face reality at that moment and be strong about your problems.