Stein serves as a mentor to Hemingway, advising him on writing, buying art, and other matters. He often goes to visit Gertrude Stein at her home at 27 rue de Fleurus, where she lives with her partner, Alice B. He sometimes struggles with writer’s block, but when this happens reassures himself that all he needs to do is “write one true sentence” and the rest will follow. When they return, the weather in Paris is beautiful, but still cold, and Hemingway is always hungry.
Later, he goes home and makes plans to go on a trip with his wife, Hadley. He stares at the woman, and the sight of her inspires his writing. He goes to work in a café, where he sees a beautiful woman. Whenever the man is with one of the women he misses the other, and it is eventually “necessary” to end the original marriage.Hemingway begins by describing the “bad weather” during the winter in Paris and the cafés filled with alcoholics. However, when the third person comes to interrupt this existence, there is a terrible “split inside you” and every moment becomes torturous. Hemingway then begins to describe himself and Hadley in the third person, noting that they shared everything, were always happy together, and they loved their child and their life together. Hemingway confesses that it may sound silly, but that loving two women at once is “the most terrible and destructive thing that can happen to a man.” At first the man’s wife trusts him, then the man starts lying to “everyone,” and eventually he breaks all the promises he initially made to his wife. The husband ends up loving both women, and the one who is most “relentless” succeeds in keeping him. Hemingway notes that before “these rich” arrived, “we had already been infiltrated by another rich using the oldest trick probably that there is.” This “trick” involves a young single woman befriending a married woman with the aim of marrying her husband.
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