Chapter Fourteen (is really short.)

If I'm to talk about literary devices, a lot of stretching is going to have to happen. For instance, "To hell with women, anyway. To hell with you, Brett Ashley," could be, aside from misogynistic, an apostrophe. Brett isn't there; Jake is just expressing his frustration with her to his audience.

More schadenfreude occurs, as well, which isn't something this class is studying, but it's an important quality in Hemingway's characterization process, I believe. "I liked to see him hurt Cohn. I wished he would not do it, though, because afterward it made me disgusted at myself." This set of emotions is even more complex than just the schadenfreude on its own. Instead of creating the reaction "This character is evil," it makes the reader somewhat more sympathetic.

I also found it interesting that Brett wants, on page 154, to listen to Jake's confession. Nobody wants someone else listening in on their confession! That's the point; the confession is the first part of the penance. I made that up, but it seems right; the confession itself is often harder than the penance, in any case.