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AP English Literatur

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Passage from "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Passage: Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.

The character of Robert Cohn is developed in this passage to show:

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His insecurities and how he tried to overcome them

His arrogance as a former champion

His sense of superiority

His love for boxing

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