6/30/2023 0 Comments Paris is a moveable feastHe wrote about socioeconomic status in prose that was, at least next to Hemingway’s, often lyrical and adorned, and most would readily agree that he’s the more effeminate of the two. Fitzgerald, on the other hand, we know as a social striver, someone who prided himself on his budding elitism and his (incomplete) Princeton education, who was known to have his pocket square and his hair-part always just right. Hemingway, we’re told, epitomizes a certain archetypal masculinity he presented himself as a hunter, a boxer, a war veteran, and a ladies’ man accordingly, he wrote in a spare, economical style, mostly about war, solitude, and adventure. Scott Fitzgerald-and why not? As contemporaries and rivals, the two make natural foils for each other. History tends to compare Ernest Hemingway and F.
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