A Clean Well Lighted Place Analysis

In the short story, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway we see conversation between two waiters that work at an all night cafe. While they are working always every night a deaf drunken suicidal man comes to the cafe to countuin to booze leaving the younger waiter in pure anger because he claims to have more important things to go like go home to his wife than to pour more brandy for man. While on the other hand the older waiter is no rush to leave the cafe because they have no reason to leave and because they believe that everyone is just searching for some meaning in this life of nothing. Even if it’s just a clean well-lighted place to sit.
I can see that Hemingway is trying to illustrate through the conversation of the two waiters that the older you get you realize that life has no meaning and is full of nothingness. It was made very clear by the older waiter when he said “It was all nothing and man was a nothing too” (Hemingway 4)
It is stated in the conversation that when asked why the old deaf man tried to kill himself over, the older waiter replied with “nothing” (Hemingway 1). Once again it was suppose to taken in a literal way, not just someone trying to avoid the question. The older waiter was stating that it was nothing because to him and the old man, everything is nothing.
In conclusion i believe that Hemingway purpose of writing the story, A Clean Well-Lighted Place was trying to illustrate that as you get older life starts to lose its meaning and everything turns to nothing. People are just trying to find a person, place or thing in the world that gives them a little bit of hope or meaning to survive. Even if that little bit of meaning in life is sitting at a clean well-lighted