The Importance of Reading Ernest discussion

why do you think nick (or even hemingway) took marjorie to an abandoned town to break up with her?

lol! in case she threw a fit with an audience. no audience, no fit, no evidence. think that is possible?

do you think he expected one though? bill certainly did :)

hi everyone,sorry i have been away for so long .I was vacationing in Florida for few weeks after the everglades and miami i maded my way to key west,of course been a fan of Hemingway i stopped at his house listened to stories like the one about the swiiming pool his wife build and how angry he was,i think Hemingway was a difficult mann to live with but a wonderfull author i trully enjoyed visiting his home and took so many pics i understand now why he love key west and all those cats .

I visited there a few years ago. Loved it! Have bought all my friends a small print of the house, because they have been there too. We are reading a Hemingway book in July. Farewell to Arms , which he worked on while living there. It is really cool. Glad you got to experience it. If you're interested in visiting other literary homes, which I've done myself in recent years.... I can recommend to you a great book/guide for that purpose!

Some of you may be interested in checking out a fairly brief review I did(from memory!) of Hemingway's In Our Time. The End of Something is mentioned in the discussion as well as its place in the work as a whole.I think many would find how the whole fits together interesting. Best.

P.S. If I remember correctly,Catharine in Farewell... was based on Agnes, a nurse Hemingway falls in love with while in Italy. I think she appears in one form or another in "A Very Short Story," where Hemingway's character is dumped by his lover after she meets an Italian officer who teaches her about love and leads her to see that her affair with Ernest was merely ' "a boy and girl affair."
First love can be a wonderful/terrible thing. I have an idea for a novel with a similar theme in the back of my head. I'm waiting for it to pop out.