After Mike and Bill leave in Book III, the mood is so relaxed! Jake is just having a good time. This is all true especially back in France. You can tell that he just belongs there. "It is the simplest country to live in" (page 237). Then he goes to Spain by himself, and everything continues to be pretty relaxed. Swimming, reading, drinking, just taking it easy. Jake was happy.
"COULD YOU COME HOTEL MONTANA MADRID AM RATHER IN TROUBLE BRETT" (page 242). Tense, tense, tense. It was like an immediate change from perfect to "oh no!". Jake loves Brett, so he was obviously worried, but I know that Brett is probably overly-dramatic, so it wasn't going to be a big deal. So I wasn't tense, but Jake definitely was. I love that Jake knows how ridiculous he is being. (Cohn was also ridiculous, but he wasn't aware of it). "Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love" (page 243).
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