Similie

pg 146 "Dont sit there looking like a bloody funeral" & "Why do you follow Brett around like a poor bloody steer?" These similies are used as insults against Cohn. Mike says these in a rage because Cohn has silently admired Brett during the whole trip. MIke just cannot put up with it anymore and finally snaps. After seeing the poor, quiet, steers at the bull ring Mike compares them to Cohn. He suggests that RObert Cohn is silent and depressing ressembling a funeral. He also says that Cohn is like a steer in the way that he follows Brett around silently. These similies help the reader see Cohn from Mike's point of view. Hemingway uses these similies to make Cohn seem even more helpless and shy.