<P> All begin to drink heavily . Cohn is resented by the others, who taunt him with anti-semitic remarks . During the fiesta the characters drink, eat, watch the running of the bulls, attend bullfights, and bicker with each other . Jake introduces Brett to the 19 - year - old matador Romero at the Hotel Montoya; she is smitten with him and seduces him . The jealous tension among the men builds--Jake, Campbell, Cohn, and Romero each want Brett . Cohn, who had been a champion boxer in college, has a fistfight with Jake and Mike, and another with Romero, whom he beats up . Despite his injuries, Romero continues to perform brilliantly in the bullring . </P> <P> Book Three shows the characters in the aftermath of the fiesta . Sober again, they leave Pamplona; Bill returns to Paris, Mike stays in Bayonne, and Jake goes to San Sebastián on the northern coast of Spain . As Jake is about to return to Paris, he receives a telegram from Brett asking for help; she had gone to Madrid with Romero . He finds her there in a cheap hotel, without money, and without Romero . She announces she has decided to go back to Mike . The novel ends with Jake and Brett in a taxi speaking of the things that might have been . </P> <P> The first book of The Sun Also Rises is set in mid-1920s Paris . Americans were drawn to Paris in the Roaring Twenties by the favorable exchange rate, with as many as 200,000 English - speaking expatriates living there . The Paris Tribune reported in 1925 that Paris had an American Hospital, an American Library, and an American Chamber of Commerce . Many American writers were disenchanted with the US, where they found less artistic freedom than in Europe . (For example, Hemingway was in Paris during the period when Ulysses, written by his friend James Joyce, was banned and burned in New York .) </P> <P> The themes of The Sun Also Rises appear in its two epigraphs . The first is an allusion to the "Lost Generation," a term coined by Gertrude Stein referring to the post-war generation; the other epigraph is a long quotation from Ecclesiastes: "What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever . The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose ." Hemingway told his editor Max Perkins that the book was not so much about a generation being lost, but that "the earth abideth forever ." He thought the characters in The Sun Also Rises may have been "battered" but were not lost . </P>

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