The Sun Also Rises Exile Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 "Hurray for Wine! Hurray for the Foreigners!" was painted on the banner. |
Cohn, with characteristic confusion, doesn’t get that they are the outsiders in Spain – his self-centered vacation mentality is that Spain is there for their use.
| Quote #5 "They’re a fine lot," I said. "There’s one American woman down here now that collects bull-fighters." (16.8) |
Again, Jake separates himself from the other Americans – he’s not limited to their view of the world. If anything, he’s disgusted by it.
| Quote #6 Big motor-cars from Biarritz and San Sebastian kept driving up and parking around the square. They brought people for the bull-fight. Sight-seeing cars came up, too. There was one with twenty-five Englishwomen in it. They sat in the big, white car and looked through their glasses at the fiesta. (18.1) |
Jake feels alienated from the tourists who come to watch the bull-fights from a distance; this difference makes it impossible for him to identify with them.
