Harry's Bar

**Text:** *Across the River and into the Trees* by Ernest Hemingway. Harry's Bar is one of Hemingway's great late interiors. Colonel Cantwell returns to it for drinks, ritual conversation, and a style of composure that the novel steadily reveals to be fragile. The room's elegance matters: it lets him perform mastery even as memory, age, and mortality press in. That is why authors choose Harry's. It offers understatement rather than spectacle. In literary use, it becomes a chamber for regret and self-fashioning, a place where characters drink not to become louder, but to hold themselves together.

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