The Sun Also Rises through chp. 16

First, I noticed how in chapter 14, Jake describes the town as "fresh", "cool", and "healthy", right before the fiesta day, which foreshadows the fiesta in a negative light. Next, during the religious part of the ceremony, I noted the continuance of the church motif throughout the book. As jake enters the church, he sees that Brett can't bring herself to enter the doorways because she "didn't have the right hat". Throughout the book, there have been multiple scenes involving churches that reflect the sins inside the characters, and this scene mirrors that reflection of sin inside Brett. After the bull-fight, Jake describes a "disgusting" feeling he leaves the fights, and he subsequently treats this feeling with absinthe (symbolically different than just drinking wine). He uses the absinthe to numb the gore he just witnessed. Because the bull fights are linked to the wars he and the lost generation has been in, and the war the chaps are involved in for Brett, this "feeling" and drinking become strong motifs throughout the book. Finally, I didn't quite understand the significance of Pedro Romero- especially when Jake is showing Brett all of his techniques in the ring when he says "I got her watching... so that she saw what it was all about, so that it became more something that was going on with a definite end, and less of a spectacle with unexplained horrors" (172).