The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

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.

I anticipate this boxing endeavor will lead ill. His pursuit is something above physical superiority

In his last year at Princeton he read too much and took to wearing spectacles.

Uncanny that I consider myself to be of this same dodo disposition

I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his face,

Past tense, narrator now refers to the lasting scar left by his boxing career

she became a little disgusted with Cohn and decided that she might as well get what there was to get while there was still something available, so she urged that they go to Europe, where Cohn could write.

Jake,”

narrators name

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

what is it to live life? Don't ask me...I can tell you plato would say (of course through Socrates) that living a good life, is the one with his many virtues. Stoic's say that to live a good life you must realize that you can't control anything external, so external events should not affect your well-being. Hedonists say it's the life of greatest pleasure. Who knows what it means to live life fully. Not I

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”

Bull fighter: perhaps he's saying that they experience life in its full magnificence because they are in constant danger of losing it.

french for Hens?

Say boy, a Perdod for you

Carriage

The rather alluring female who approached Jake

Translated into English it means Hen, however it seems to be used to describe young females

^^^ maybe hen doesn't have the most innocent meaning

Don't know