I have found the million-dollar question. With how free Brett is in her love life, it's pretty difficult for me as well as most other readers, I would assume, to tell who the person that Brett actually loves is. It isn't Cohn. She runs off with him, but talks poorly about him behind his back and supports those who don't like him. It isn't Mike. Though she is supposed to marry him, but she is so unfaithful that she obviously doesn't want to marry him. It isn't Pedro. She runs off with him after the fiesta in Spain, but she quickly realizes that she doesn't want to be with him. At this point every person that she ran off with or was going to marry is out, so who do we have left? We have Jake. From the beginning of the novel, Brett has flirted with a lot of guys, but she can only have deep, meaningful conversations with Jake. Whenever one of the two needed help, they would only feel comfortable going to the other. On the final page of the novel, 251, Brett acknowledges how they should be together by saying "Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together." I think that in the time of their lives after the novel, they will continue to live as they have, but understand their love a bit more.
Hemingway puts this relationship in the novel to show the reader what traits he believes make a couple truly in love. These traits are true no matter the time period that the reader lives in. This adds to the timelessness of the novel.
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