Robert Cohn

"For God's sake, go off somewhere. Can't you see Jake and I want to talk?"

"I didn't," Cohn said. "I thought I'd dit here because I felt a little tight."

"What a hell of a reason for sitting with any one. If you're tight, go to bed. Go on to bed."

While reading this chapter, I couldn't help but think about the role Robert Cohn plays in this novel. My impression of him is that he is this very intelligent and semi-wealthy man who simply has no social skills. This makes me sad for him, because I feel like everyone else has had their fling with Brett and not made a big deal of it, but when it comes to him, they are brutal toward him. I also think that Mike is very jealous toward this man, and therefore the only way he feels he can express his feelings about him is by belittling him to the point of harassment. Mike is almost like the big bully on the playground that has the pretty girlfriend right now, but they will break up and he will never amount to anything. After all this man is bankrupt! As for Robert, he is the little scrawny kid that does not have many friends when he is little but is very intelligent and will amount to something one day and the future. I can't help but think about him as the little brother or sister whom everyone just picks on, and he just stands there and takes it.