To Have and Have Another Revised Edition by Philip Greene

Author:Philip Greene [Greene, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

“It tastes very good but terribly strong.”

“They are strong,” David said. “But there’s a strong wind today and we drink according to the wind.”

Before long the trio are doing everything together, spending their days at the beach and their evenings together at the bar. The Martini plays a strong supporting role in their getting to know each other.

By Chapter 13, Catherine is beginning to show signs of a mental breakdown. David makes her a Martini, thinking it might cheer her up, but she pours it out on the bar, then eats the olive. “There isn’t any us,” she says. “Not anymore.” He makes her a second Martini, which she again pours out. She finally drinks the third, and her mood improves. “You just lose something and it’s gone that’s all. All we lose was all that we had. But we get some more. There’s no problem is there?” she says.

In Chapter 14, David has spent the morning writing, then the trio go to the beach. After a decadent lunch washed down with plenty of Bollinger Champagne, Catherine is worn out and takes a siesta, sleeping away the afternoon. David and Marita sit at the bar having a drink. He begins to question his own behavior, wondering how he ended up in a ménage à trois. David makes them both a Martini, and when Marita disappears to go see how Catherine is doing, David decides to drink her Martini. As he does so, he feels a “clear and undeniable” sense of pleasure drinking her drink, “because it was hers.” But he recognizes the situation he’s put himself in, in love with two women, and he’s not sure he likes it.

Toward the end of the novel, Catherine burns the stories that David has been writing for weeks. She views them as “worthless” and feels she’s doing him a favor by destroying them. Marita tries to console him, telling him that he can write them over again. He tries, but initially fails. Like any good mistress should do in a situation like this, Marita suggests he have a drink, and David, naturally, mixes them Martinis, “icy cold and dry.”

In the novel’s closing chapter, Catherine has departed, and David, miraculously, is able to rewrite the stories she destroyed.

Islands in the Stream also contains a few choice Martini scenes. The first part surrounds a painter, Thomas Hudson, who lives and works in Bimini. He’s eagerly awaiting a summertime visit by his three adolescent sons. In Chapter 5, Hudson has spent the morning working. Now that his author friend Roger has arrived, he’s knocking off for the day. They then engage in a fairly comical discussion of whether or not it’s okay to have “a quick one,” even though it’s not yet noon. They rationalize it away thusly: Tom’s finished working, and Roger is on vacation, so what the hell, let’s have a Martini, eh? But rules are rules, and Tom has a rule against drinking before noon. Roger piously pretends to agree: “I’ve been keeping that rule too.

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