Topic > Hemingway A Coffee - 1823

“A good coffee on the place St.-Michel”Hemingway begins this chapter by discussing the horrible weather in Paris. The first café mentioned by Hemingway is the Café des Amateurs, which is a bad place full of drunks. Leaving his hotel room on the top floor of a hotel, Hemingway goes to a bar on the Place St. Michel. A beautiful girl enters the bar and catches Hemingway's attention for a moment, but he soon returns to writing. He finishes his story and begins to wonder if going to Michigan would help him write about Paris. Hemingway returns to his hotel room and proposes the idea to his wife, who immediately accepts. “Miss Stein Instructs” Hemingway and his wife return to Paris from the mountains, to find it “clear, cool, and lovely.” Hemingway develops a new method of writing and often visits the Luxembourg Museum to admire paintings. If the museum is closed, Hemingway visits Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice Toklas, friends of Ernest and his wife. Hemingway often advised Stein on her manuscripts and had one published (The Making of Americans). In one of the conversations between Hemingway and Stein, the theme of homosexuality emerges, and Stein concludes that Hemingway associates homosexuals with criminals, due to some experiences with sexual predators when he was young. "'Une Génération Perdue'" Hemingway regularly visits Stein at his apartment, where they talk about travel and books. Hemingway seems to accuse Stein of judging authors based on their personalities, rather than the work they produce. “The Lost Generation,” the chapter title in French, emerges in their conversation, and it becomes apparent that Stein believes that war veterans (including Hemingway) are a lost generation who ... middle of paper .... . .watch it in the bathroom. They return and conclude that everything down there is normal, but they go to the Louvre and look at the naked boys just to be sure. Flash forward again, Fitzgerald is dead, and Hemingway tells a bartender at the Ritz that he will write about the first time he and Fitzgerald met (which became A Moveable Feast). "There is never an end to Paris" Bumby, Hemingway's son does not like the cold and damp Parisian winters. The family travels to Austria, where they stay in a hotel and take skiing lessons. One year, Hemingway returned to Paris in the winter, and after that nothing was the same (because of the rich). The “pilot fish” lures the rich to the Hemingways and leaves nothing but destruction. Hadley befriends a rich young woman with whom Ernest is having an affair, giving a sad ending to Paris' story.