Discussion questions for A Moveable Feast

1) How does Hemingway survive in Paris?

2) In what ways is the city important to his writing?

3) What are his relationships with the other expatriate writers in Paris?

4) What impression of Paris does his memoir leave you with?

Discussion questions for “Paris Was a Woman”:

1) Why did these women go to Paris?

2) What did they do there?

3) How did these women form a community?

4) How did these women advance French and Anglophone literature?

Expatriate Paris: PeopleErnest Hemingway

Expatriate Paris: PeopleHadley Richardson Hemingway

Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway

Expatriate Paris: PeopleGertrude Stein and Alice Toklas

Expatriate Paris: PeopleSylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier

PeopleJanet Flanner

(with Ernest Hemingway)

Expatriate Paris: PeopleNatalie Barney

Expatriate Paris: PeopleRomaine Brooks

Expatriate Paris: PeopleDjuna Barnes and Thelma Wood

Expatriate Paris: PeopleJames Joyce

(with Sylvia Beach, right)

Expatriate Paris: PeopleF. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Expatriate Paris: PeopleEzra Pound, John Quinn, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce

Expatriate Paris: PlacesHemingway’s Paris apartments

Expatriate Paris: PlacesLeft Bank Cafés

Expatriate Paris: PlacesShakespeare and Company

12, rue de l’Odéon

Expatriate Paris: PlacesLa Maison des Amis des Livres (Monnier bookshop)

7, rue de l’Odéon

Expatriate Paris: Places27, rue de Fleurus

Home of Gertrude Stein

Expatriate Paris: PlacesNatalie Barney’s home/salon

20, rue Jacob