Jake And Brett Quotes

It seems by the end of the novel, Jake and Brett are the only ones who seem to have come to terms with who they are and who they have become. Especially Brett, she always knew she was a bitch, but she never really noticed it until the end with Romero “I’m thirty-four, you know. I’m not going to be one of those bitches that ruins children” (247). She sent Romero away for her own benefit and I think that’s the Brett that Jake and Mike knew personally. Cohn and Romero didn’t know Brett like Jake and Mike did, and that’s growing up for Brett. The fact that she admitted that she was dead weight for Romero and cut the ties. By the end of the novel, she’s toxic as much as she’s just realizing “shit happens, I am who I am” you know? “’I’m going back …show more content…
We know that Cohn will more than likely go back to Frances because he’s been filled with the toxic poison of Brett, that there’s no other way, but to refill yourself with someone that isn’t poisonousness—and, Frances was the one that loved him, in her own way. Bill was never having any troubles or issues, he was just Bill and he going to continue being Bill. Last we see Mike he was drunk and probably still is, we don’t know, but we do know he gets a happy ending with Brett. I’m not stating that this poisonousness is a bad thing, some of the best friendships are poisonousness and they seem to make it work—as though they say, nothing is perfect. Jake is the only one who was realistic in the story because we needed someone to keep us—as readers—in reality. We needed someone who knew that life was crap. He’s already been filled with the poison from the war, nothing could possibly happen to him that hasn’t been the worst already. Hemingway was conveying that realism comes with being an adult, and sometimes being an adult means putting up with toxic people because you have no one else. Not letting it consume you, like Jake doesn’t, but simply just hanging out with people who you have something in common