Drinking in Spain
Drinking in Spain

Summary/Abstract: The inter-war American expatriates seem to have found a substitute for the West in the mountains of Spain. Fishing and bullfighting were the favourite pastime of these ‘men without women,’ drinking coming second. It is still an essential dimension in the troubled personality of Jake Barnes, Hemingway’s alter ego in The Sun Also Rises; it is also essential for his ‘buddies,’ they all revolving around the equally troubled personality of Lady Brett Ashley, who in turns becomes the bitch-goddess of the riau-riau dancers, the Circe of Robert Cohn, the Terrible Mother of Mike Campbell, the daredevil of Jake Barnes himself. Drinking is one of her many weapons to enslave them all, and keep them in awe.

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