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Robert Cohn is a Canadian born entrepreneur and businessman known for founding Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and was largely responsible for making it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies and on residential phones.
A detailed description and in-depth analysis of Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises.
Robert Cohn is an ex-boxer, a writer and a divorced man who is in love with Lady Brett Ashley. He is the only one who is not a war veteran and he is often mocked by the other characters for his Jewish background and his romantic ideals.
Brett's affair with Jake's Princeton friend Robert Cohn (whom the characters often refer to by his last name) causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Cohn; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes Jake to lose his good reputation among the Spaniards in Pamplona.
Robert Cohn is a boxer, a practitioner of one of the so-called "blood sports" (like bullfighting) admired by Hemingway, and by Jake. Cohn fights effectively, too; note how he dispatches Jake himself as well as Mike with his fists and only fails to beat Romero, who possesses a sort of superhuman resilience.
Robert Cohn is the first character we meet in the novel, but he is not the hero. He is a wimpy and easily influenced man who sparks the plot with his affair with Brett and his clash with Jake and other men.
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