In “Does He Mean That?,” Foster questions if authors intend to mean everything they write. According to Foster, authors do intend to mean everything.“ [But] The real answer, of course, is that no one knows for certain. Oh, for this writer or that one we can be pretty sure, depending on what they themselves tell us, but in general we make guesses.” Therefore, we can infer that Hemingway being an author does mean to do that. Foster also says that “the few pages of this chapter have taken you a few minutes to read; they have taken me, I’m sorry to say, days and days to write.” So this means that if it takes days for an author to write a few paragraphs that means that the author has time to write, think, and reflect on what he wants to say and
