Hadley Richardson's impact on "A Moveable Feast"

When Hemingway was reaching the end of his life and had been living through struggles of depression and alcoholism, he began to write about his times in Paris as a young writer with his first wife Hadley Richardson. Both Hadley and Hemingway had a child named Jack, but their love was not strong enough. There were many incidents involving for their break up, Richardson had lost a briefcase full of four years of Hemingways work and after that incident he couldn't really forgive her. Hemingway also made mistakes, mistakes such as having an affair on Richardson with one of her friends Pauline Pfeiffer. Shortly after Richardson found out Hemingway and her had divorced. However, in "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway, which is a story of Hemingways early years being in love, young, and on the come up to being an extraordinary writer. He mainly talks about Hadley during this time because she was there for him even before he was the man he would become and that was something he realized in his later years. Even when Hemingway was writing about her in "A Moveable Feast", he would call her just so he can remember some of their times fully before he put them in the book. In a recent article by Christine Whitehead she states, "Still, Hadley was there at the beginning before he was the famous Ernest Hemingway. She was there during the ever-productive Paris years, which proved to be a touchstone gift that kept on giving. She funded his ability to write in Paris, enabling him to eventually at warp speed finish the first draft of "The Sun Also Rises" in six weeks (Whitehead). Hadley was a huge influence on Hemingway's writing even when they weren't married, she was his last relationship before he started to use alcohol as an excuse as to why he was a great writer. Hemingway as a writer was so talented, one of the reasons why he is so talented is because he always tied in personal experiences to his writing.