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" That is his hope for the future: to be able to make better sense of his suffering, and to manage to get what enjoyment he can from life Jake's present philosophy, as these paragraphs imply, has to do with both "paying for everything" and "getting something in exchange," depending on what, how and why one pays

Jake's philosophy of "paying" and "being paid" is a sexual metaphor that works for others, but not for him.

In terms of his relationship with Brett, Jake still "pays," as other men do, but can receive nothing, sexually, in return. Thus, Jake can neither "pay" nor "be paid" sexually, as other men (and women) can

Jake, however, still wants to learn "to live in" the world as he now finds it, including learning to live with his uncomfortable condition.

Jake hopes that his own personal endurance and determination will help him "learn... what it was all about," that is, to better understand his own suffering, and thereby make better sense of life

Later at the bullfight (Chapters XV-XVI), Jake does not complain or act self-pitying in front of others, especially Brett. This is an illustration of the aspects of his manliness, in his view, that he can still control and will not compromise.

Jake resents it when men like Robert Cohn act sulky: they have the physical capacities of men, but, as Jake sees it, they act like children. This is behavior Jake would never allow himself

Jake considers Cohn's behavior around Brett and the others at the Pamplona festival and bullfight to be particularly self-indulgent, and, therefore, unmanly

Jake is especially resentful that Robert...

Mike Campbell, a drunken fool and one of Brett's many lovers, is another person whose physical capabilities, combined with a childish personality, that Jake resents
Jake's emotional control is tested again and again in the later Pamplona bullfight chapters (Chapters XV, XVI)

In one scene, Jake and Brett meet the handsome and renown nineteen-year-old Spanish bullfighter Pedro Romero b.

Jake admires the purity of Romero's art, and Romero's own grace humility, and dignity.

Romero is a manly man, according to Jake's own high standards (which

Few men are) d.

Jake is hurt, though, when he realizes Brett is attracted to the bullfighter d.

During the bullfight, Brett keeps looking at Romero's "green trousers," which reminds Jake of his deficiency e.

Jake nevertheless admires how Pedro is heroic without being flashy f.

How Romero is in the bull ring is how Jake wants to be in life

Jake's experiences, good and bad, with Brett and the others at the bullfight, and his own behavior there, especially compared to that of others, illustrates the "philosophy" Jake tries to live by, and articulates in the last of these three paragraphs: "Perhaps as you went along, you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about."

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner's, 1926.

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