This one's from Erin:
What do you think about Mike's description of Brett? "She loves looking after people." That seems to interrupt most of our ideas of Brett as a callous "man-eater." Does this change your opinions of Brett's ethics in intimacy?
We did have the scene, early in the book, in which Jake wasn't feeling well and Brett came up to "look after" him. I like the idea that Brett can have a tender heart, but it's not as if Hemingway shows Brett actually "looking after" Jake, Cohn, or Mike. We just have to take Mike's word for it.
We did have the scene, early in the book, in which Jake wasn't feeling well and Brett came up to "look after" him. I like the idea that Brett can have a tender heart, but it's not as if Hemingway shows Brett actually "looking after" Jake, Cohn, or Mike. We just have to take Mike's word for it.
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