# The Sun Also Rises — Character guide

> Key figures in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

- [Jake Barnes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/jake_barnes.md): American expatriate journalist in Paris who narrates the novel, carrying a war wound that shapes every intimacy he cannot have.
- [Lady Brett Ashley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/brett_ashley.md): Charismatic British socialite with cropped hair and a racing-yacht figure, the woman Jake loves and can never keep.
- [Robert Cohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/robert_cohn.md): Wealthy Jewish-American novelist and former Princeton boxer, earnest and insecure, who mistakes Brett's attention for a promised land.
- [Bill Gorton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/bill_gorton.md): Jake's wisecracking American friend, arriving in Paris with a cable and a taste for fishing, drinking, and needling Cohn.
- [Mike Campbell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/mike_campbell.md): Brett's bankrupt Scottish fiancé, a war veteran whose drinking fuels loud, ugly confrontations with Cohn in Pamplona.
- [Pedro Romero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/pedro_romero.md): Young, gifted bullfighter from Pamplona whose grace in the ring and green pants captivate Brett and unsettle the men around her.
- [Montoya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/montoya.md): Montoya runs the hotel in Pamplona where Jake's circle stays for the fiesta, and his real authority comes from his afición — a deep, almost religious devotion to bullfighting that he shares only with those he deems worth
- [Harvey Stone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/harvey_stone.md): Down-on-his-luck American expatriate, often found in Paris cafés.
- [Belmonte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/belmonte.md): Famous but aging bullfighter who appears at the Pamplona fiesta.
- [Harris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/harris.md): Englishman met by Jake and Bill during their fishing trip in Burguete.
- [Frances Clyne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/frances_clyne.md): Cohn's possessive and bitter girlfriend in Paris.
- [Edna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/edna.md): American woman who flirts with Bill and others in Pamplona.
- [Braddocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/braddocks.md): Expatriate acquaintances of Jake, hosts of a Paris dinner party.
- [Count Mippipopolous](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_sun_also_rises_se/characters/count_mippipopolous.md): Wealthy Greek count who pursues Brett in Paris.

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