E.Hemingway
Montoya regards Jake as a real lover and aficionado of bullfighting, in part because Jake stays in Montoya's
hotel every year during the fiesta. Jake and Bill find Brett, Mike, and Cohn in a café. Mike regales them with
a war story, relating how he gave away another man's medals, since he had none of his own. Everyone
watches the unloading of the bulls. When the shining, muscular beasts charge out of the cages, steers
(castrated male bovines) work at calming them so that they do not kill one another. The steers are often
gored in the process. Jake tells Brett not to look, but she watches anyway, fascinated. Afterward, they go to
a café and get drunk. Mike makes a few cutting remarks about Cohn following Brett around like a steer,
referring to the fact that Cohn went to San Sebastian after Bill and Jake left Pamplona. Mike berates Cohn
for not knowing when he isn't wanted. Bill leads Cohn away, and things calm down