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Robert Cohn was also seeking after something to please his heart but only left him with sorrow. One thing he sought after was relationships with women. Cohn “married the first women who was nice to him” but after five years of marriage and three children he found that he lived in “domestic unhappiness with a rich wife” (pg. 4). Since he found his marriage to be futile, he desired to leave his wife. Once the two separated, he found another women, named Frances, to find meaning. Robert was enamored with this new women, “he was so sure that he loved her.” But similar to his last relationship, he wanted to leave Frances because he found their relationship to be pointless as while. Frances realized his feelings. Jake asked her what was the matter …show more content…

Montoya respected people who he thought were real aficionados, who are those passionate about bull-fighting. He “could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had afición. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions,all sorts of lapses. For one who had afición he could forgive anything.” (pg, 106). Jake thought having the respect of Montoya to be worthwhile. Jake described their relationships as some special secret only shared between real aficionados. But Montoya’s respect faded like many other things do. His treatment toward Jake changed because Jake let Pedro Romero, a respectable bull-fighter and a real aficionado, hang out with drunks “Just then Montoya came into the room. He started to smile at me, then he saw Pedro Romero with a big glass of cognac in his hand, sitting laughing between me and a woman with bare shoulders, at a table full of drunks. He did not even nod” (pg. 141). At this moment, Montoya didn’t think Jake was a real aficionado anymore. When Jake was leaving the hotel, Montoya didn’t interact with Jake at all. The respect that Jake thought was valuable disappeared and was reviled to be

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