The Sun Also Rises: A Hero In Hemingway's novels, he has an idea of a "hero", in which a man must do certain things to be considered a hero. A man has to be a "man's man". The man has to like driking beer, wild game hunting, enjoy bullfights, and participate in love affairs. In the story, The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn could be considered the opposite of a "Hemingway Hero" for several reasons. Robert feels that bullfighting is "abnormal". Cohn doesn't like to box, but learns to, so that if he had to he could defend himself. Also, Cohn is not considered a hero, because many of his experiences came to him by reading and not by confronting