Robert Cohn
"'No, I'd like to get this settled.' He turned away from me. 'Do you think you amount to something, Cohn? Do you think you belong here among us? People who are out to have a good time? For God's sake don't be so noisy, Cohn!'" (Hemingway 181)
Believe it or not, Michael, I've heard this all before. Now that I've returned to the homely bosom of my fiancee and seen what an idiot I was, this only hurts more than it did at that moment. Perhaps I did think I was one of you. Once, a very long time ago, I believed I was a part of you lost and listless souls drifting about in Pampalona. I belonged to Brett then, back before I made the second-biggest mistake of my life. My biggest mistake after that was bothering to indulge in your little escapes from reality. You wished me not to be so noisy, but what about you, Michael? With your belligerence while drunk and your pride despite having no money to your name? I've been humbled to the point of embarrassment: this I recognize fully and wholeheartedly. So when will all of your stumbling and prideful egos follow?
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