6/23/2023 0 Comments Gay couple lost twins![]() ![]() “Zelda said that the way I was built I could never make any woman happy and that was what upset her originally. She said it was a matter of measurements. As Hemingway claims in A Moveable Feast-and claims is just the word, because his own sexual insecurities tended to manifest in an unfair emasculation of Fitzgerald-Fitzgerald told him: It takes place in the men’s room at Michaud’s, at the time an upscale brasserie in Paris. There’s a classic story of the homosexual tensions bubbling just beneath the surface between Hemingway and Fitzgerald. But the sexual identities of these men, formed by their peculiar childhoods and the Lost Generation artists they surrounded themselves with, weren’t as self-evident as many modern readers might think. ![]() He 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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