Fiesta conlflict

I find the most prominent conflict of the book is Jakes relationship with Brett, which is also the only continuos theme of the book. Jake and Brett appear to have some history of being in a relationship, and Jake was, and is, madly in love with her. Unfortunately for Jake though, Brett is quite promiscuous if i may say so. She definitely makes it obvious in this book that she's completely unreliable and impulsive. She jumps between partners, like Mr. Ashley, Michael, Jake and now Pedro Romero. Cohn is also in love with her, and at first the feeling is mutual and she even abandons Jake for Robert but eventually it leads to and culminates in a fight. Moreover, Brett seems to only be interested in Jake as a friend or rather someone to vent her thoughts and feeling onto. Which adds to my suspicion that Brett is not romantically interested in Jake, and that she's most likely just using him. Apart from using Jake, I get the feeling that she also takes advantage of her different partners wallets, Mr. Ashley who isn't mentioned in the book much but seems to be nobility is most likely wealthy, Michael is describes as a "rich scot" who coincidentally is revealed to be bankrupt about the same time that Brett leaves him for Romero. Brett probably has a nicer image of herself. Although she calls herself a bitch several times which makes me think she kind of knows what she's doing, also, she knows she's a bad influence on Romero and decides to leave him instead of "being a bitch that ruins children". However, she most likely left him because he wanted to marry and settle down, which contradicts Brett's lifestyle. Jake on the other hand seems to have no interest at all in taking action and demonstrate what he really wants to Brett. He seems, impotent to say the least, and in one scene even brings Romero and Brett together (to have sex, which he no doubt knew).


Another, perhaps more obvious, conlict, is Michael vs. Cohn. The tension is built up and in this part of the book (second book) Cohn is shown as a rather annoying character. Michael, Bill and Jake are bothered by Cohn and on several occasions Mike gets a little too "tight"(drunk) and begins spewing profanities at Cohn. Bill and Jake are a bit more composed but agree with him at first. This happens a few times before the conflict culminates when Cohn comes looking for Brett, who's with Romero by the way, and asks Jake where she is. Jake doesn't know but Cohn doesn't believe him so the boxing champ knocks out him and Mike. Later he apologizes though.