These wounds impact Jake dramatically, as, Brett drags an entourage full of men with whom she has slept in front of him nearly every day, including her fiance, Mike, Jake's own friend, Robert Cohn, and a handsome young bullfighter that the group meets in Spain, Pedro Romero. In fact, Brett eventually ends up leaving her fiance to run away with Romero. After deciding to leave the young bullfighter, Brett sends an urgent telegram to Jake at the hotel where he has gone to rest, urging him to come and find her. At a moment's notice, Jake leaves the hotel and is united with Brett in a bar. Though he came rushing to her fearing some emergency, she simply wants to lament with him, and comments that "we could have had such a damned good time together." Thus, Brett and Jake's thwarted relationship is the best example of an ex-soldier's delusions after war. Because of the impact of the war, his impotency, Jake is unable to attain his desires or live a fulfilling life. Instead, he meanders around Europe with friends who come and go as they please and a woman who will not have him. Through his life, Hemingway establishes his theme of the
In three, "A Soldier's Home," a Farwell to Arms and the Sun Also Rises, the effects of war play a large part in the main character's inability to assimilate into society, remain happy, or pursue a meaningful existence after the war. Whether they are traumatized by the horror of the war, physically wounded, or simply hardened against the importance of anything but war, one cannot argue that war affects each character, leaving him a disillusioned member of a lost generation that Hemingway may have called his own.
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