Conflict

-THE struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story- When the book opened with the life of Robert Cohn I assumed that he would be a well liked character if not the main character. However, the story has taken a completely opposite stance. Jake finds Cohn some what annoying in the first few chapters but after Robert expresses intrest in Brett Jake seems to have little friendliness towards Cohn. This is something that most of the other characters do not truly know the extent to because no one knows of jake's love for Brett. Later in the story jake discovers that Robert had a short fling with Brett and his jealousy increases. Jake talks poorly of Robert to other people but he hides this hatred to the point that Cohn considers him his best friend. They have a strange relationship and are always in conflict.