Time away from... work?

Barnes is, yes a writer, but we as readers are never told he works hard at what he does. So when he takes a leisurly vacation away to go fishing in the mountains, I almost want to ask 'Does he need it?' Sure, everyone can use a break every now and then, but for someone that spends his nights in Paris, drinking and dancing with friends and strangers, and then sleeps till noonish, and works several hours, it doe not seem to me like he needs a vacation. "I went and found the man who suscriped my tickets for the bull fights every year, and he had gotten the money i transfered." (Hemingway 102.) For a man whose line of work does not sound so stressful, he does receive a fair amount of money. He takes these trips every year, and they do not sound so cheap at that. In a country trying to rebuild itself after the war, this book does a fabouls job addressing the social changes, but fails to mention uon the finacial chaanges still affecting Europe.