Miss Stein Constructs

“A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel”

When winter came to Paris, the weather was so bad that to warm up the room where the narrator worked was considerably expensive. One rainy day, Hemingway went to a nice café on St.-Michel. While sitting in a warm café and writing a story, the author spotted and enjoyed watching a beautiful girl sitting at a table by the window. Completely immersed in his writing, he didn’t even notice when and with whom she left. When he finished his work, he ordered some food and drinks, leaving the thoughts about the writing for tomorrow. After a productive day at the café, he went home and offered his wife to leave Paris to go to mountains. She supported his idea.

“Miss Stein Instructs”

After coming back to Paris from the mountains, Hemingway payed frequent visits to his new acquaintance, a fellow writer and art collector, Miss Gertrude Stein. He enjoyed her company and the talks they have had: They discussed their own writing and the writings of other contemporary authors, paintings, and artists. During one of the visits to Stein’s studio, they have talked about homosexuality: Miss Stein made a clear distinction between men’s and women’s homosexuality and claimed that women are happy in homosexual relationships while homosexual men cannot find

Once, Miss Stein told him that he and everyone who served in the war were a lost generation. When Hemingway tried to show her how inconsistent such an assumption was, she denied him the opportunity to express his opinion. Later, the writer could not get rid of the thoughts about this unjust statement; his rumination lead him to the idea that every generation is in one way or another a lost generation. With that thought in mind he remembered what a good person Miss Stein was and could not be angry at her any