ression. His depression worsened in 1961, and on July 2 of that year, Hemingway woke early in the morning and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.I believe Robert Cohn is the character that Hemingway would like to be. Robert Cohn, born to a wealthy Jewish family in New York needed to minimize his difference and his shyness. He threw himself into boxing, becoming the middleweight champion at Princeton. He married very soon after his graduation on the rebound from his unhappy college experience. He and his wife had three children. Cohn lost most of his fifty thousand-dollar inheritance, and after five years, his wife left him before he could leave her. The end of the marriage came as a relief to him. He met Frances Coyne, a manipulative status seeker, while working as an editor on a literary magazine. They moved to Paris to become part of the post-war crowd of expatriates. Unlike the other characters, Cohn is a light drinker, and he believes in the romantic pre-war ideals of love. As a Jewish, non-veteran, Cohn and his shyness makes him an easy target to be picked on by his friends and his values are corrupted. Frances hopes to rise through the magazine, but she eventually realized this will not happen. She latched onto Cohn in the hopes of rising through him. She convinced him to move to Paris. When her looks began to go, she began to push Cohn to marry her. She became extremely possessive and jealous of Cohn. Cohn submits to her ironhanded rule for a few years, but the success of his novel gives him a new confident cockiness. He breaks their engagement, irritating Frances. She travels to England with the three hundred pounds she wrangled out of him, leaving Cohn free to pursue Brett. Brett did not want to be with Cohn and ended it. Cohn, unable to believe the affair meant nothing, continually pines away for her, causing a good deal of tension during the trip to Pamplona for the fiesta. Brett becomes infatuated with Pedro a...
