counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton." (12) Cohn inherited fifty thousand dollars from his family, but he wasted most of it in his first marriage. Cohn was a writer. His first novel had achieved some success and this gave him much more confidence in himself for life. After his first novel, he finally finds the courage to end his unhappy marriage with his second wife. In the novel Cohn lives in New York at the beginning, but later he moves Paris with is second wife. For most of the novel he lives in Paris and belongs to a typical clique of middle age Parisians after the war. All of the males in the clique had been soldiers in the war, while Cohn hadn't.
             When Cohn came out of Princeton he was very lonely and wanted someone to take care of him. So he married the first girl he met after college. Him and his first wife had three children. Their marriage was torture for both of them. They couldn't find a common way of life. So after five years when it ended it was a relief to both of them. Soon after the divorce, he started to work as an editor for a literary magazine. While working there he met Frances. Frances was a gold digger and hoped Cohn would raise from his editor position. The novel describes Frances as "She was very forceful, and Cohn never had a chance of not being taken in hand." (12) Frances persuaded him to move to France. For the first two years Cohn loved Frances dearly, but as she became more controlling, he began to dread her. After Cohn's first novel achieves some success he leaves Frances. Later he falls in love with Lady Brett Ashley at first sight. He is completely infatuated with her. He constantly follows her around. Brett is very promiscuous and has many sexual aff
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