The following passage reminded me of the quote we talked about last class: "As they violated the rules of sex, they obeyed those of gender." I think the following passage really describes her relationship with her lover and how they would stick to their designated gender roles within their relationship.
"Miss Stein was very big but not tall and was heavily built like a peasant woman. She had beautiful eyes and a strong German-Jewish face…She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.
Her companion had a pleasant voice, was small, very dark with her hair cut like Joan of Arc in the Boutet de Monvel illustrations and had a very hooked nose. She was working on a piece of needlepoint when we first met them and she worked on this and saw to the food and drink and talked to my wife. She made one conversation and listened to two and often interrupted the one she was not making. Afterwards she explained to me that she always talked to the wives." (8)
Another passage I found interesting was that in which Hemingway was recalling a previous conversation with Gertrude Stein in which she says to Hemingway, "The main thing is that the act male homosexuals commit is ugly and repugnant and afterwards they are disgusted with themselves. They drink and take drugs, to palliate this, but they are disgusted with the act and they are always changing partners and cannot really be happy…In women it is the opposite. They do nothing that they are disgusted by and nothing that is repulsive and afterwards they are happy and they can lead happy lives together." (13)
Excerpts from A Moveable Feast (memoirs by Hemingway)
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