A Moveable Feast
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In "Scott Fitzgerald", "Hawks Do Not Share", and "A Matter of Measurements", Hemingway describes his life-long friendship with fellow American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and Hemingway were became good friends, even though they had a little bit of a professional rivalry. Hemingway's sympathetic attitude toward Fitzgerald shows that Fitzgerald had many idiosyncrasies but Hemingway was willing to look past these quirks and find a true friend.
Hemingway portrays his attitude towards Fitzgerald with his physical and environmental characterizations. Physically, Hemingway states that Scott "looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hairand a delicate long-lipped mouth that, on a girl, would have been a mouth of beauty" (149). Fitzgerald had quite a feminine face, one of his many idiosyncrasies. His appearance also gave hints as to what his personality was like. He had a "mouth [that] worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more" (149)...