A Clean Well Lighted Place By Ernest Hemingway

The famous American author Ernest Hemingway famously used a specific style of writing to develop his stories and demonstrate deeper points through them (Frenz). An example of this writing style can be found in his 1933 short story “A Clean Well Lighted Place”. “A Clean Well Lighted Place” tells the reader a story of how the young and the old interact and what the young lose as they become the old. This short story uses symbolic characters and themes to convey the loneliness many find in old age and the desire to live a full and purposeful one.
“A Clean Well Lighted Place” consists of a cast of 3 major characters, none of them named and each have characteristics that are symbolic of their respective age group. The main character is a middle aged waiter who is easily relatable. The other two characters in a “Clean Well Lighted Place” exist on opposite sides of life. The young waiter is recently married and is beginning to find his purpose in life, where as the Old man who is a patron at the cafe has nothing left in life except his niece who only stays
He went through the public education system in Oak Park Illinois. Hemingways Energy for writing mirrored his mothers for music. Although he came to disdain his mother, he related to her in that sense. Ernest Hemingway was shown the wilderness by his father (U Michigan). The family owned property on the Northern Michigan peninsula and his father brought them their and showed Ernest how much the outdoors had to offer, They hunted and hiked and fished together. A recurring theme in Hemingway's life was masculinity. He grew to love hunting because he loved the manliness it was associated with. In high school he participated in many sports. Hemingway was also very intelligent and participated in intellectual activities, it is through these activities he found that he enjoyed writing (U