n The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Jake is a very harsh, very bitter character especially when contrasted with the naivety and frivolousness of Robert Cohn. When Jake talks or references Cohn it is in a distasteful manner masked with unimpressed indifference. While at the beginning of the book Jake describes Cohn as physically strong and masculine he then goes to discredit this by branding him unmemorable and childlike due to him being "moulded by two women who trained him" (Hemingway 52). Instead of making Robert Cohn out to be desirable and interesting person, Jake portrays him as static and one dimensional. This is due to his innate jealousy of Robert that Jake himself does not even realize. Cohn is the physical embodiment of virility
