I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Interpretation
Hemingway expresses a disdain for how people treat animals at the zoo, suggesting that animals deserve respect.
In this quote, Ernest Hemingway humorously critiques the human tendency to ridicule animals, implying that it is the animals that should be admired rather than mocked. He reflects on the role reversal he believes should occur at the zoo, where people often forget their duties of respect and empathy towards creatures that exist for their amusement.
In practice
In a discussion about animal welfare, one might reference Hemingway's view to emphasize the need for compassion.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
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