A Moveable Feast Blog
Dec. 8/10
By: Anthony Mariano
In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast,” Scott Fitzgerald was the author of “The Great Gatsby” and a very good friend of Hemingway. In the section in the novel with Fitzgerald’s name, he and Hemingway are drinking champagne and are discussing their writing. While they reminisce on the past, Hemingway begins to see a change in Fitzgerald: “His face became a true death’s head, or death mask, in front of my eyes.” (152). After surviving his friend’s health scare, the two begin to spend more time together. However, Fitzgerald realizes that his wife, Zelda, misses him dearly and needs attention, along with his daughter, Scotty: “It was only the question of who was to look after Zelda and young Scotty.” (164). It comes to show that Fitzgerald is not only devoted to Hemingway, but his family as well.
Throughout the novel, Hemingway mentions many places in Paris that he stopped at in Paris. Although I have visited Paris, the one place that I would like to visit is “Shakespeare and Company,” a bookstore owned by Sylvia Beach. This place specializes in English language books. One reason why I like the bookstore is because the place is neatly organized and decorated: “On a cold windswept street, this was a warm, cheerful place with a big stove in winter, tables and shelves of books…the photographs all looked like snapshots…” (35). Also, Sylvia is a nice person to know and talk to: “But she was delightful and charming and welcoming and behind her, as high as the wall and stretching out into the back room…” (35-36). “Shakespeare and Company” was not only a place to receive knowledge, but a warm and caring environment to visit.
