In Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast there are many intriguing things about an acquaintance that he met while in Paris. Gertrude Stein is very interesting. In some instances she seems to totally clash in personality with Hemingway. Yet he enjoys her company and continuously visits her on many occasions. She constantly puts down the writers that Hemingway enjoys reading and he never gets to make a point about any of them. There are also comments that she makes that sound like she is putting Hemingway down, as Stein once stated "All of you young people who served in the war, you are a lost generation"(29). She likes to talk about how bad his generation is and how drunk everyone is from that time, but never directly says it about Hemingway. Stein also argued "You have no respect for anything, you drink yourselves to death-(29). Stein's outlook on life is defiantly very unique and I believe that is what truly drew the attention of Hemingway. Understanding that Gertrude Stein would draw one's attention with all of her antics, one still has to wonder if Hemingway actually liked her company or is just trying to use her to gain an edge in publishing books. .
There is a picture in my head of a dark and dreary Paris where all of the people there are drunk most of the time. That is at least the picture that I paint from Gertrude Stein's point of view. Hemingway kind of made it sound that way in the beginning, but he seems to be very happy with his life. It does seem, however, that they both talk a lot about food and eating. Ernest Hemingway goes into great detail about eating and drinking. He doesn't strike me as being drunk all of the time but he does seem to always be drinking. I"m sure drinking that much one would build up immunity to a certain level of alcohol. In Europe at that time I"m sure social drinking was more common. It is a different culture and Hemingway learned to adapt when he was over there.
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