Paris In Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

Documenting his life story as a young man in 1920’s Paris, Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir, A Moveable Feast brings an affluence of detailed encounters and memories he had during his visit. It also describes the lifestyle he remembers as an aspiring writer with his first wife, Hadley. In the “Fragments” section of the restored edition of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway writes, “If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction…” This book is factual, but he has fictionalized some parts of the book. Hemingway writes a beautiful yet perplexing story of his time in Paris. This memoir brings a sense of how Hemingway was trying to find his identity as a writer rather than being a true autobiography. This memoir brings clearly all the observations, thoughts, and first encounters of people he has met over the years in which he is trying to find himself as a writer rather than it being a true autobiography. Hemingway writes more than a scenic book, it is more than his journal of Paris. There is a slight undertone of the book in which he is finding himself in Paris. Rather than describing his walks through the Luxembourg gardens in the winter, he writes them …show more content…
A Moveable Feast is a collection of biographical sketches of other authors and artists he has met and different places he has been while in Paris. Using detailed imagery, he describes the places he visits and the people he meets vividly. For example, in the chapter “Scott Fitzgerald,” he describes Fitzgerald’s personality, character, and conversation with great detail. Additionally, he depicts Paris the way he sees it and gives attention to the minor details that give a precise image. For example, in “Miss Stein Instructs,” Hemingway describes the weather of Paris at the time and how “you walked on the fresh-washed gravel paths through the Luxembourg gardens,” and how “the trees were beautiful without their leaves in the clear sharp wind,”