A Sad Player
As a child, Hemingway was forced to play the cello. Not only did he detest playing it, but he also showed next to zero talent for the instrument! He never wanted to play in the first place, but that didn’t stop his overbearing mother from persevering.
Grace kept Ernest home from school for more than a year, trying to force him to play, but Little Lord Hemingway proved more stubborn than his mother and eventually gave it up. He said, “That cello—I played it worse than anyone on earth.”
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