Mr. Ernest Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

There is an apparent unity seen between the old man and the older waiter. Opposite from the young waiter, the older waiter and old man seem devastatingly lonely and worn out by life. While the young waiter is rude and insistently talks down to the old man, the older waiter defends him. He too understands and appreciates a clean, well-lighted café opposed to a bar or bodega. The older men understand each other without there being any communication between them. In the final line the reader is able to truly understand the older waiters view of his own morality, “He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted café was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he went home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally,

The younger waiter believes he has “no regard for those who have to work.” On the contrary the older waiter also doesn’t belong to a family and attempts to explain “he stays up because he likes it” “it’s clean and well lighted” the light acting as a metaphorical parallel to the comfort the café offers in his otherwise dark life. Seeing as the older waiter understands him he does his best to make the customer feel he belongs and build a relationship with him. He realises that not everyone shares the same perspective realising “it’s not only a question of youth” but in this case a question of lack of relationships allowing sympathy and explaining his actions.

Mavis Alder is tending bar. She doesn’t like tending bar, but she has a pretty face that’s good for tips, is a good listener, and enjoys making cocktails. She really just hates drunk people. Fortunately for Mavis, the bar is sparsely packed tonight. There are the regulars; Johnny and Yumay, two good friends who come to the bar every wednesday to drink, complain about their lives, and attempt to pick up Mavis. There is a depressed looking man in a tuxedo sitting at the end of the bar, staring hopelessly into his drink, and sitting next to him is a tall dark skinned man in a muscle shirt, a jacket, and some jeans. About 30 minutes ago he had come in and sat next to the tuxedoed man who, for whatever reason, seemed to had lost all hope in humanity.

The young waiter doesn’t seem as blind, he must be older than Maico if he can work at such a nice cafe, and he definitely knows that not everyone is so clean or innocent. The young waiter seems to just want to get on with his life, and get away from the people who take up his time. The young waiter is too tied up with his current situation and doesn’t understand why the old deaf man tried to kill himself. The young waiter believes a hour of his time is more than a hour of anyone else's but,they are both worth nothing. He doesn’t look far enough ahead to see the brick wall just a couple of steps in front of

The two waiters exemplify the two ends of the spectrum of people. The oldest is the lonely and the younger is the happily married. This short story makes the differences of bars to cafés and the lonely to the happily married prominent. When people feel unwanted, alone, and in despair, they know they can find solace in the clean well-lighted

The old man who is the main character in Hemingway's story displays many different attributes and gives off a mysterious appearance when he is first described in the story. It is said by the younger waiter to the old waiter that this old man in particular tried to commit suicide in his home last week due to despair and loneliness in his life. The old man goes to this restaurant in particular because he considers it a second home where he can go and feel welcome. But the younger waiter doesn't have much patience or understanding of life as people approach the older age bracket. “The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass. The younger waiter went to him. “What do you want?” The old man looked at him. “Another Brandy,” he said. “You’ll be drunk,” the waiter said. ” (Hemingway 157). The reason why the waiter toward

In the small town of Charleston, an older, lonely man sits at the bar in a Diner. A young couple sat at the other end drinking coffee. The woman was dressed nice in a pretty red dress and the man looking dapper with his blue suit and hat. The older man is a regular at this diner. He arrives at the same time, sits on the same stool, and is always dressed nice as if he were about to meet someone. He never did though. The waiter knows the older man by name and says, "Hey Hopper, anything new today or just the same old, same old?" whenever he would walk in. Hopper would just shrug his shoulders as usual and sit on his stool. He looks at the couple at the end of the bar and nods, while waiting for the waiter to get him his

Though it is not stated directly in the story, the overall tone gives the impression that the waiter believes if the old man had succeeded in killing himself the week prior, the waiter could be going home at a decent time that night. He lacks empathy for the pain the old man must have been experiencing the week before when he attempted suicide. Instead of giving some of his time to talk to the old man about the suicide attempt or allow him a safe place to be at night, he cuts him off and forces him to leave. Simply because the waiter does not care for the elderly or their

In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” the narrator describes the importance of the cafe compared to all the other places that are open to convey the idea of loneliness and despair. Through the use of imagery, symbolism, point of view and, allegory Ernest Hemingway establishes a connection between the older waiter and the deaf guy, as he illustrates the significance the well-lit cafe brings to their lonely night. As the waiters discuss their thoughts on being open so late, the older waiter claims to be one of those who enjoy the aura of the cafe being open so late compared to other places. “With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.“ The role the cafe plays to diminish loneliness and despair does not go unrecognized by the older waiter and deaf guy who find their escape in that clean well-lit cafe. Loneliness screams louder at night for those who walk through it by themselves. They look to find comfort in a well-lit place with a calm and pleasant aura. The feeling displayed between the old deaf man and older waiter does not register with the younger waiter who does not understand the search of finding peace found in the cafe. The younger waiter has a wife to go home to as the older deaf man and older waiter have nothing and that is their escape from their dark loneliness, the cafe. Since it is clear that Ernest Hemingway has established that the old deaf man

The older waiter is much more understanding of the old man’s situation. He knows what it feels like to be lonely. He knows the desire to stay in the light that staves off the darkness, a darkness that brings thoughts of how lonely you really are. There is an emptiness in him can only be filled with the cleanliness and light of the café. He feels that this is the same for the old man.

     The old man signals the younger waiter over for another drink, and the waiter declines to server him because he feels that the man is getting drunk and doesn't want to get stuck waiting for him to finish. The younger waiter then comments that the old man should

In the story “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place” by Earnest Hemingway begins with the main character and his co-worker in a café. The two are analyzing, and discussing a deaf, drunk Oldman, who is their last customer of the day. As the deaf old man insists on having more whiskey, the main character informs the young waiter as to why and how the old man tried to commit suicide. They began to converse about the Oldman’s depressed life. The younger waiter is in a rush to go home to his wife, while the older waiter is patient and he stands up for the Oldman, being able to relate to him. Hemingway’s sentence structure and writing style represents the comparison and contrast between setting, people, and objects, along with emphasizing how it is to have and be nothing.

Late one early morning, in a cafe, there is an old man drinking brandy. There stands a young waiter who is angry; he is wishing the old could just leave so that him and the other waiter could close the cafe. He begins to insult the man although he is deaf. He is painfully

The short story, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, begins with an older deaf man that is a regular at this café. He comes in a lot and sits in the corner of the café, to keep to himself. The waiters’ start to talk about the man, due to him trying to commit suicide. They cannot comprehend why he would do such a thing, since he has money, so he shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Following the waiters’ talking about him, it was starting to get late and they were going to close the café shortly. The waiter that was serving him was annoyed that he had been there so late in the evening and intoxicated. He wanted the older man to leave, so he could go home at a decent hour. The second waiter wanted the older man to be left alone,

The older waiter may have seen himself when he was observing the old man in their café. It may have showed him a mirrored image to the waiter’s future. Life can take you in many directions and the older waiter saw a direction that the old man was lead to. By this shows more of the older waiter’s empathy.