- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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While trying to work at a café, Hemingway is harassed by a young man who wants to talk to him about writing. Hemingway is aggressively dismissive of the young man, but they nonetheless engage in playful (though hostile) conversation. Hemingway suggests that the young man learn to become a critic, claiming that “creation’s probably overrated.” This statement is facetious, yet there seems to also be an element of sincerity in it. Hemingway often adopts a (possibly falsely) humble and self-denigrating attitude about his own creative work, and later in the chapter he admits that part of him hoped that the…