In Earnest Hemingway’s memoir ‘A Movable Feast’, Earnest displays a very colorful personality. His personality ranges from being a disrespectful homophobic person to an aspiring feminine gay writer in a café to becoming a caring and loving friend to F. Scott Fitzgerald despite him being unreliable and immature. Earnest personality is biased depending on how much he respects a writer and will see past writer’s faults, as long as they are male or masculine. His colorful biased personality is best shown with his interactions with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Miss. Stein and the feminine gay writer Earnest met in the café.
In the chapter “Scott Fitzgerald”, Mr. Hemingway’s attitude towards Mr. Fitzgerald is very positive. At the beginning of the chapter Mr. Hemingway becomes intrigued with curiosity towards Mr. Fitzgerald. On page 155, the reader discovers his reverence for Mr. Fitzgerald as he is looking forward to traveling with him, stating, “I would have the company of an older and successful writer, and in the time we would have to talk in the car I would certainly learn much that it …show more content…
Hemingway. Understanding that he is homophobic and dislikes feminism, meeting the gay feminine writer in the café is the worst relationship he has with another character. To make matters worse, the gay writer disturbs him from writing. He becomes very disrespectful calling the gay writer a “rotten son of a bitch” and calling his mouth a dirty camp on page 92. He continues being disrespectful and says a horrendous amount of homophobic slurs. In between slurs he notices that the aspiring gay writer can’t write, and he said to him, “Look, if you can’t write why don’t you learn to write criticism?” in efforts to help him. From the dialog he has with the aspiring gay feminine writer, Mr. Hemingway has no respect for him being feminine, gay, and a writer because of him being biased and having certain prejudices towards
In the chapter “Scott Fitzgerald”, Mr. Hemingway’s attitude towards Mr. Fitzgerald is very positive. At the beginning of the chapter Mr. Hemingway becomes intrigued with curiosity towards Mr. Fitzgerald. On page 155, the reader discovers his reverence for Mr. Fitzgerald as he is looking forward to traveling with him, stating, “I would have the company of an older and successful writer, and in the time we would have to talk in the car I would certainly learn much that it …show more content…
Hemingway. Understanding that he is homophobic and dislikes feminism, meeting the gay feminine writer in the café is the worst relationship he has with another character. To make matters worse, the gay writer disturbs him from writing. He becomes very disrespectful calling the gay writer a “rotten son of a bitch” and calling his mouth a dirty camp on page 92. He continues being disrespectful and says a horrendous amount of homophobic slurs. In between slurs he notices that the aspiring gay writer can’t write, and he said to him, “Look, if you can’t write why don’t you learn to write criticism?” in efforts to help him. From the dialog he has with the aspiring gay feminine writer, Mr. Hemingway has no respect for him being feminine, gay, and a writer because of him being biased and having certain prejudices towards