The Brilliance and the Badness of 'The Sun Also Rises'

In tenth grade, I read a biography of Ernest Hemingway. I used to claim to have read a lot of books I hadn’t read, and I thought that if I read Hemingway’s biography I wouldn’t have to actually read him. But the biography amazed me. Hemingway didn’t go to an office; he travelled around all the time and did only cool things. I, too, wanted to travel around and do only cool things.