Harry is married to a woman he barely loves. Harry has a history of using women for their money and then abandoning them for the next one. Hemingway had a similar motive, but not for money. Hemingway seems to crave adventure and each wife presents something new to the writer. They also share the loss of their first love. Harry loses the first woman he loved in Paris and never hears from her again. He is heartbroken and jumps from one woman to another unsatisfied in his search for love. Hemingway fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, the nurse who looked after him, in a hospital in Milan. He proposed to her and she accepted, but later left him for another man. This heartbreak provided Hemingway with material for future writing. Both men have encountered the loss of their first love and seem to continue searching for something resembling love. Harry, while on his deathbed, pushes Helen away from him and curses her for her blind love for him. He considers telling Helen how he really feels, but resists the urge to crush her. This toxic attitude towards a woman who has given him everything is almost disturbing, but he has no love because there was never love in the first place. After the war, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in 1921. Hemingway realized that this marriage was the only one that contained true love. The couple separated in 1927 and communication between the two