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The Largest Feast May Not Cure Hunger

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The Largest Feast May Not Cure Hunger Ernest Hemingway discusses the theme of hunger throughout A moveable feast by exploring and describing the different types of hunger that he felt. He aims to explore this theme in the passage where he strolls with Hadley, and they stop to eat at the restaurant Michaud’s. Through repetition and use of unconventional detail and word choice, Hemingway shows that he has more than one type of hunger, and needs to differentiate between them. Hemingway strives to tell that hunger is a feeling that is deep within someone, that changes depending on the situation and varies in intensity and meaning. In order to stress the various types of hunger that he felt, Hemingway uses repetition. He uses this device …show more content…

Hemingway described the family’s features, yet he does not describe them as well-fed people. One might think that if Joyce has the means to eat regularly in expensive restaurants, his wife would not eat delicately and he won would not be thin. However, Hemingway chose these descriptions because eating does not equate to fulfilling every type of hunger. Hemingway also explores whether other people felt the same kind of hungers in other parts of the novel when he writes, “I used to wonder if [Cézanne] were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly he had only forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way” (Hemingway 69). Hemingway can relate to Cézanne’s feeling because he has felt the same. Being hungry does not always mean that one has simply not eaten. He showed that Cézanne had a hunger to paint and to create; this is similar to Hemingway’s hunger. Hunger is often unpleasant, yet Hemingway knew that it could yield effects that were pleasurable, such as the creation of new works. He uses the word

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