Robert Cohn was the control group of the book because he was the only one of the group that didn’t go to war. Robert Cohn went to college instead of the war “Oh, cut out the prep-school stuff.”(HEMINGWAY, 47) Robert Cohn was a boxer at Princeton so Robert got to live a normal life like the people that didn’t go to war and he doesn’t represent everyone he probably just represents one person during this duration of time.
Jake Barnes- jake was a combat soldier in the war and in the middle of combat he was injured and he probably had his manhood compromised probably also because he can't get an erection. At the end of the book, Hemingway put a little tease at jake …show more content…
Brett can’t commit to a relationship Because during world war II Brett’s true love was killed.”"When did she marry Ashley?" "During the war. Her own true love had just kicked off with dysentery." "You talk sort of bitter."Sorry. I didn’t mean to. I was just trying to give you the facts."”(HEMINGWAY,46) She is afraid of sticking too close just to find out they have died in some kind of accident. She doesn’t Have a job because when she is with a guy they get her things or it’s because she gets some of the sir Ashley's money because of the divorce.
The whole group has been affected by the war except for cohn one way or another for jake it was his masculinity was taken from him, for brett her true love was taken away from her. A Lot of people were affected in the group the that was mentioned in the essay however everyone has to remember “ you are all a lost generation.”(Gertrude stein in conversation, in the sun, also