Jake should be Spanish

Despite the way he favor irony, Paris and the culture surrounding it are not good for Jake. Throughout the novel the facade that Jake puts forward is one of stoicism and irony, but it obviously isn't who he is or what he should be doing. Spanish culture seems to be much more relatable  to Jake, and seems to make him much happier. Brett also seems to be a representation of Parisian culture in the novel and helps to illustrate why it is not good for him. 

Take Brett for example, she almost epitomizes the Parisian culture of the time period, which seems to be what Jake idealizes, but his relationship with Brett is obviously unhealthy. This becomes even more clear when, while she is gone and he is in Spain, Jake seems content for the first and only time in the novel. The contrast between his emotional health in Paris and Spain is highlighted by how well he sleeps and how he feels before and during going to bed in the two countries. In Paris,  when his unfortunate relationship with Brett is not something he can ignore, he often sleeps extremely poorly and spends long periods of time thinking about his situation with Brett, sometimes crying because of it; not what you would expect from a person in a healthy relationship. In Spain, when Brett is removed from his thoughts, he is placid and his only thoughts before going to sleep are that "It felt good to be warm and in bed", he is content. 

Jake's love of bull fighting also represents both how Spanish culture is a better fit for Jake, and that Paris is unhealthy for Jake. Jake's love of bull fighting seems to stem for it's tradition and it's passion, which are also seen in other elements of Spanish culture (i.e. the peasants with their more traditional approach to drinking); when he is in these settings he is much happier. This would seem to indicate that he would fit well into Spanish society, and that he would be content with it. However, when Parisian culture comes into the equation in the form of Brett, he goes back to being unhappy and loses touch with his values. Instead of being placid and happy like he had been before, he became unhappy and corrupted Romero, who basically symbolized everything Jake loved about bull fighting. Basically, Parisian culture is harming Jake's life. 

The Doctor

In both Michael Cunnigham's The Hours (and the movie adaption directed by Stephen Daldry) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, the disconnect between what the various doctors think will help and how Septimus and Woolf respond to that plays a very important role. In both cases this disconnect makes the doctors ineffectual and ultimately helps contribute to the suicide of their patients through their inadequacies. 

 In The Hours the doctor is the one that prescribes Woolf's isolation and 'rest cure' in the country (which is supposed to give her mind time to recover away from the city, and all of the sensory stimulations that the doctors believe led to her mental issues). However, Woolf hates the country and her condition only grows worse as they spend more time there, ultimately ending in her suicide, despite the fact that Woolf did enjoy living.

Similarly, in Mrs. Dalloway one doctor believes that Septimus is simply not masculine enough to deal with his scarring from being in the war and prescribed bromide, which doesn't do anything to help him, and the second, Sir William Bradshaw prescribes the 'rest cure', which doesn't even get put in effect in this case.  The inadequacy of the doctor also leads to the suicide of Septimus even though he, like Woolf did not actually want to die. 

Given that The Hours is written at lest partially about Woolf while she was writing Mrs. Dalloway, it doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to say that Woolf was drawing on her own experiences with the inadequacies of the treatment of mental health issues to argue that they need to be improved through Septimus.