4. Robert Cohn

I do. I shouldn't wonder if I were in love with her (Hemingway, 46). Robert Cohn tends to be easily influenced by others, especially women. He has only met Lady Ashley once and already questions his love for her, but this is nothing new to Cohn. He married the first girl to come across him fresh out of Princeton. Which in a way most likely parallels the boxing he took up at Princeton because of the inferiority he felt because of anti-semitism. Then after his five year marriage and divorce, he meets Frances within two years of arriving in Paris from the states. After several years of promising to marry Frances he withdraws on his commitment, but like his previous relationship, refuses to end it once and for all. I feel as if since Cohn believed himself inferior at Princeton he tends to hold on to anyone who will treat him as an equal, and possibly love him. Yet, because of this tendency, he is not truly in love with the people who love him. Instead, he is finding himself infatuated with a woman and mistaking it for love. To him, this infatuation is like a bond to him, a connection that no longer makes him feel inferior.