A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Existentialism in Hemingway’s” A Clean ,Well-Lighted Place “ismanifested all through the story. The first idea which the short story opens with isnothingness .Hemingway suggests that life is meaningless and empty. Nothingness can be found in this short story whose characters have no names. Also, there is no plot; there is no action. We know from the beginning of the story that the Old Man has unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide ,Old Waiter asks the Young Waiter why the Old Man tried to commit suicide, the Younger Waiter answers "Nothing,""Last week he tried to commit suicide one waiter said. Why? He was in despair. What about? Nothing"(p1.8-12). Why do people commit suicide? There are many reasons for committing suicide like depression, addiction
He feels his life isn’t worth living anymore. He has nothing so he sees no other option but suicide.Hannah Baker says“ I started thinking how everyone’s life would be without me be better enough … and what does feel like? It feels like nothing like a deep, endless. Always blank nothing”(13 Reason why). furthermore, the Old Waiter has a conversation with himself where he discusses why he should have stayed open and why” A Clean ,Well-Lighted Place” is a good place because he has nothing to do.The Goldwater says "Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada" (p3.126). As described by Carlos Baker, Nada is "a Something called Nothing which is so huge, terrible, overbearing, inevitable, and omnipresent that, once experienced, it can never be forgotten" ( 1972 . p124).The Old Water says the words prayer but leads everything that religious and in sense “nada” which is nothing. Also, it reflects on all the rest of the story. It may be concluded, there is a link between the age and nothingness. There is difference between the Younger aged Waiter in one side and the Older aged Waiter and Man in another