There Is Never Any End to Paris Summary and Analysis

The Parisian winters are cold and wet, too cold and wet for Bumby, Hemingway's young son, he writes. They escape from Paris in the winter to the mountain village of Schruns, in Austria. There, for two dollars a day for the three of them, they can stay in a comfortable hotel and eat good food. The village is in an open valley with plenty of sun, and there is hiking and skiing. Bumby spends his days being taken care of by a girl from the village, and Hadley and Hemingway take lessons in high mountain skiing.

The climbing and skiing keep them constantly hungry, and they eat the excellent food and drink the local wine with gusto. They have a supply of books borrowed from Sylvia Beach, and the...