The Sun Also Rises: Chapter IX~Travel

Again with the traveling. Do these people ever stay home? I guess being a writer is a fairly flexible career, but still it seems that these people never settle down. Brett and Mike are talking about taking a vacation to Spain to meet Bill and Jake on their fishing trip, but Brett just went on a vacation with Robert. I'm not quite sure why she chose to go on a vacation with Robert in the first place, but maybe she just wanted to go to another place. It seems like a fairly popular motif throughout the book. Traveling could signify the characters continually trying to run away from their problems. It would be quite difficult to run away from their problems though, when they continue to travel with the same people that cause the drama.