Hemingway’s marital relations began to deteriorate when he met Pauline Pfeiffer and got into an affair with her, and his wife found out.

Hadley asked for a separation and later filed for divorce. The couple divorced in January 1927, and Hemingway married Paulina in May later that year. Pauline came from a wealthy Catholic family, so before the marriage, Hemingway converted to Catholicism. Together, they moved to Paris, where Paulina worked for Vogue. Hemingway was working on another collection of short stories, published in 1927 under the title “Men Without Women.”