"Bipolar disorder...is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes." -- Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a way of taking really easy and simple concepts and making them complex with big words and unnecessary amounts of blue links. However, one thing I did learn is that many people involved in the arts have bipolar disorder. From this I inferred that Hemingway had bipolar disorder (I mean, he was in the war). Isn't inferrence great? Now from here I decided that the characters in The Sun Also Rises are direct impressions of Hemingway's ego, and as such all have bipolar disorder as well. This obviously impressive deduction on my part explains both Cohn and Jake's behavior in the (surprise!) café in Chapter V. Jake tells Cohn to "go to hell" then quickly recants it. Similarly, Cohn prepares to storm off in a tizzy but swiftly follows this up by "[smiling] again and [sitting] down." I'm not really sure why Jake takes his comment back, though. It's pretty clear he pitys/hates Cohn with an unquenchable passion. Personally I think it's the jealousy rearing it's beautifully poetic head once again; Cohn is very clearly interested in Brett Ashley (now I know Hemingway is just testing me with the backwards name thing) and Jake doesn't like this one bit, evidenced by his less-than-attractive descriptions of her. What's so great about this Brett girl anyways?
I have the slightest feeling that this movie was just an excuse for Hollywood to make a risqué film about drinking and sex. Not at all does that sound familiar to anything. Ever.
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