Jake hits Robert when Robert calls him a pimp because on
some level, Jake believes there is some truth to it. Pimps usually do not have sex with
their girls, and Jake is incapable of having sex with Brett because of his injury. So
the pimp comment emasculates Jake. Plus, Jake is in love with Brett, even though he
knows she is promiscuous. Everyone is fed up with Robert anyway because he is constantly
throwing his morals in their faces. He doesn't drink all the time, like the others, and
he is old fashioned in his values -- wanting to make a lady out of Brett in the true
sense. She is a lady in title only, because she does not act like a lady in Robert's
view.
When Jake is walking back to his hotel, he
expeeriences a kind of awakening. He says he feels like everything is new. He notices
things he never noticed before. What do you think this means? Perhaps he has realized
the truth, and the truth has set him free?
Both Robert and
Jake say they need to take a deep, hot bath. They both feel the need to cleanse
themselves. Robert wants to cleanse himself from the twisted values of this group of
friends. They do not share his values, they do not like him, they are constantly telling
him to get lost (especially Mike), they insult him for being a Jew, and he has put up
with it because he loves Brett. But he realizes that Brett is not going to change, so he
needs a bath to wash it all away -- especially her. Jake wants to take a bath to cleanse
himself as well, but he is unable to get the water to work. On many other levels, Jake
is not working, so the bath is symbolic of Jake's physical dysfunctions as
well.
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