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The Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises Characters
Meet the Cast
Jake Barnes
In an alternate universe in which World War I never happened, Jake would be a total stud. It’s like what they say about James Bond: women want him, men want to be him. Unfortunately, in our w...
Lady Brett Ashley
Brett Ashley is hot stuff. She’s gorgeous, seductive, smart, and has a fashion sense that eats you for breakfast. How could anyone resist her? All of the male characters in the novel –...
Robert Cohn
Robert Cohn is the first character we meet in the novel, even before we get to know Jake. We immediately find out everything we could possibly want to know about Cohn – we learn about his fam...
Bill Gorton
Bill is one of the most sympathetic characters in the novel; since he and Jake have a close bond, we in turn see him in a friendly light, despite some of his unsavory tendencies. He, like Jake, is...
Pedro Romero
Pedro Romero is the great white hope of this novel. He preserves a kind of instinctive sense of honor and purity that Jake and Montoya recognize as the mark of the true bull-fighter. Brett is also...
Mike Campbell
Mike is that guy we all know who’s really rude and usually totally inappropriate, but still a lot of fun to be around. Yes, he always says the wrong thing. No, he has no verbal filter whatsoe...
Montoya
The proprietor of the Hotel Montoya in Pamplona, Montoya is the ultimate aficionado. He is the Yoda to Jake’s Luke Skywalker, and he has a true fondness for his young padawan. When Jake and h...