In connection with our reading pages 1-77 of Hemingway’s, A Moveable Feast we have a few questions that we feel would be interesting to discuss:

1. What would make literature “inaccrochable” (unable to be hung)? Would the standard be different in Paris (1920s) than in the United States (1920s)?

2. How did Gertrude Stein meet Sherwood Anderson?

3. The important role that mentors played in Hemingway’s life: Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald, and others.

4. Who was Janet Flanner who gave Hemingway the first two Simeneons he ever read?

5. Why did Ms. Stein not like Joyce?

6. Are there still edible fish in the Seine?

7. Is there something about being a newspaper correspondent that keeps one from being able to write good fiction?

8. Why did Hadley call Hemingway “Tatie?”

9. We have read that Hadley received about $3,000 per year ($500 per month) from a trust fund. Additionally, they only paid $18 per month for their flat in Paris (two rooms on the fourth floor). Is it only fictional that they were ever poor and starving while living in Paris?

David & Susan Howard