Chapter XII Pgs: 117-130

As I suspected it seems more and more likely that the plan for all of them to eventually meet up and vacation together will not come to fruition. Especially since the final line of the chapter is “There was not word from Robert Cohn nor from Brett and Mike. However it seems that despite this Jake and Bill are having a smashing old time together. Hemingway incorporates Litotes into Jake and Bills conversation “'That’s not such filthy wine,' Bill said.” It makes the dialect flow more naturally since this type of negation often occurs in normal conversation. Other than a change of location, the book is remaining relatively streamlined with its continuous wine drinking accompanied by mundane conversations.