Eat Drink and be Merry-XI

Throughout this chapter I find peace. Robert leaves and Bill and Jake are left on a bus in a wonderful country side. They drink a lot of wine (although nothing as hard as the liquor in Paris). The chapter is filled with local color with a tone of peace. They drink with the locals and travel on a bus that is rather nice. Although their hotel is expensive they mend this problem with the amount of wine they drink. I can't help but yearn for this Spanish countryside (Kate and Kahle are enjoying it I'm sure). "We were going through farming country with rocky hills that sloped down into the fields. The grain-fields went up the hillsides...A stream went through the centre of the town and fields of grapes touched the house (page 111).... These were not like the brown, heat baked mountains we had left behind. These were wooded and there were clouds coming down from them. The green plain stretched off. It was cut by fences and the white of the road showed through the trunks of a double line of trees that crossed the plain towards the north (page 114)" This rather lengthy description is a break of Hemmingway's habit of describing in short sentences and leaving the rest to the reader's imagination. This chapter is just nice in the way that it stands away from the rest with a tone of peace and drinking, not sex and alcoholism.