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Chapter 18: Hawks Do Not Share
Explanation and Analysis—Hemingway and Fitzgerald:
Hemingway devotes a great deal of space in the memoir to F. Scott Fitzgerald, positioning his friend as a foil for himself. In Chapter 18, Hemingway contrasts the two of them by commenting on Fitzgerald's ironic dissatisfaction with Paris:
He was always trying to work. Each day he would try and fail. He laid the failure to Paris, the town best organized for a writer to write in that there is, and he thought always that there would be some place where he and Zelda could have a good life together again.
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Paris Sketches: The Pilot Fish and the Rich
Explanation and Analysis—Pilot Fish:
In Paris Sketches: The Pilot Fish, Hemingway relies on an extended metaphor to express a profound sense of regret and, ironically, betrayal over the way his marriage with Hadley ended:
Unlock with LitCharts A+The pilot fish [...] is always going somewhere, or coming from somewhere, and he is never around for very long. He enters and leaves politics or the theater in the same way he enters and leaves countries and people’s lives in his early days [...] Nothing ever catches him and it is only those who trust him who are caught and killed. He has the irreplaceable early training of the bastard and a latent and long denied love of money. He ends up rich himself, having moved one dollar’s width to the right with every dollar that he made.
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