A Clean Well Lighted Place Setting

The setting of a story plays a crucial role on the story it helps determine what type of story it is and if it’s a peaceful or violent story. In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Hemingway makes the setting a clean lighted bar. The clean bar is a place where some people might come to relieve his or her stress or just come because they are lonely. In the story, the old man comes to the bar because he is lonely and depressed, but Hemingway makes the setting a clean place in which the old man can enjoy and get away from the depression he is suffering. Later on in the story, the younger waiter is eager to go home because of the time; the setting also helps to determine what time the story took place. In the story, one of the waiters says “This is