Can you help me with "The Sun Also Rises"?

Question: Can you help me with "The Sun also Rises"!?

I've read the book, and as part of my summer I need to find 20 quotes about self-discovery and to respond to them!. For one of my quotations, I'm having trouble explaining it!. This is the quote I'm thinking of:

“’It’s no life being a steer,’ Robert Cohn said!.
‘Don’t you think so!?’ Mike said!. ‘I would have thought you’d loved being a steer, Robert!.’”

What do you think is the significance of the "bull!." Any ideas would be a lot of help!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Robert is relating his horror of the simple brutality of the life of steers as he sees them, denouncing that raw, basic life by complicating it with his own self-obsessed ideas on the meaning and reasons for living!.

Mike, on the other hand, embraces the idea of a bull's simplicity!. He sees a nobility in the honest, brutal, back-to-basics identity he, in his own pretention, attributes to them!. He also attempts to mock Robert for his neurotic self-absorpsion, declaring him someone, ultimately, who needs to take life as it comes instead of always obsessing over the potentialities and the perceived slights!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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