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I can see Papa walking the cat walk leading to his his studio. By 1937 he was growing tired of Pauline. Their marriage was on the rocks and Hemingway resented her money. He did question the rich and their attitudes somewhat, but his feelings about the rich was really about Pauline. He enjoyed his money. He thought To Have and Have Not was shit and really didn't care how Hollywood treated this small book. And Hollywood did treat the book differently. The Becall and Bogart movie was nothing like t
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The question and the premise of the book is how far what a person go to survive and fed his or her family? Even if that mean breaking laws? Those are the moral decision taht the main character of the novel, Harry has ask himself. He does it in order to fed his family by getting illegal things from Cuba to Flordia, even though sometimes he does not succeed. Hemingway taps into the mind and heart of a person who what do this, and tries to explain to the reader the result.
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