He pushes aside his plate. There's almost the feeling that there could never be a green leaf again. Then when Emma says she'll paint her house, 'In the spring,' you're almost shocked to hear that this place has a spring. That's what this was all about. The Italian world, for example, is very much a world in which the body is to be pleased, whether it's by clothes, or sex, or food, or whatever.
Life is mostly for pleasure.