Characters, characters, characters!
There are not twenty main characters in this book, but there are many that are mentioned fleetingly with a bit of a story with them.
"Do you still love me Jake?"
"Yes," I said.
"Because I'm a goner...I'm a goner. I'm mad about the Romero boy. I'm in love with him, I think." [page 187].
The bull-fighting Romero foils the protagonist Jake Barnes.
Here's a little breakdown of both characters that I have come up with.
There are not twenty main characters in this book, but there are many that are mentioned fleetingly with a bit of a story with them.
"Do you still love me Jake?"
"Yes," I said.
"Because I'm a goner...I'm a goner. I'm mad about the Romero boy. I'm in love with him, I think." [page 187].
The bull-fighting Romero foils the protagonist Jake Barnes.
Here's a little breakdown of both characters that I have come up with.
Romero
suave
19 years old
in shape
Spanish
Bull fighter
loves Brett
Barnes
tortured soul
mid-30s
his physical status is not actually mentioned, but I imagine him as average
American
writer/journalist
loves Brett
Brett is quite the man's lady as it seems that every guy she meets falls in love with her. What a wonderful disease. I won't lie, that would get old quickly if I were her.
Romero is basically the opposite of Barnes in every aspect except that they both love Brett. They both have a great love for bullfighting, but Barnes doesn't have anything to do with the actual fighting. He is an "aficionado," which is a wonderful word to say :]. Jake seems to be the brooding, tortured soul, but Romero is the suave, awesome, popular jock that everybody wants to be friends with. Personally, I think I like Jake more than Romero because Jake is older and has had more experience in the world, especially since he has seen the tragedy of war to deal with.
August 22, 2010 at 11:05 PM
not much of a comparison!