The Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is a memoir about his life as an author in Paris shortly after World War I. Hemingway is able to use the Moveable Feast as a medium to express the complex emotions that he had as an American writer in Paris. The book not only acts as a form of communication for Hemingway but also as a diary to annotate his interactions and experiences in France. The Moveable Feast is such an intimate chronicle of that the reader feels compelled to relate with the story as if it was his or her own story. The Moveable Feast is an autobiography of Ernest Hemingway’s life during the 1920s. In the story Hemingway describes the cafés that he visited and the restaurants near his house. Throughout his biography …show more content…
Hemingway’s observation of Paris is really subjective in that he writes about Paris the way he personally felt. Hemingway gives emotion to his environment and describes the weather or café according to his own mood. When he describes his good friend Sylvia Beach, his personality becomes vivid and describes Beach’s bookstore as a place of safe haven and warmth. In contrast on the way back from the racetrack at Prunier’s everything is described as dark or in relation to darkness. His purpose in recounting his memories as thoroughly as possible was done quite well. His sharp prose was able to truly impact the reader in the sense that the emotion was very lucid and almost lifelike. Hemingway did give credit to authors when credit was due and did not let personal emotions upgrade or degrade an author’s writing capability. Although Scott Fitzgerald was an extreme hypochondriac and demanding towards Hemingway he did not let that get in the way of admiring Fitzgerald’s writing quality. Throughout his biography, Hemingway is very analytical of his environment and of his people. He illustrates his friends’ characteristics by his viewpoint and standard which makes the memoir a bit biased but still gives the overall image of that character. The author even describes wine that he enjoyed but which is entirely subjective as the wine is described only to his own standard. Hemingway was quite successful in getting his viewpoint across quite clearly in the Moveable