Therefore, the older waiter sympathizes him explaining "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingway 2), which sounds more than supporting because the older waiter knows that one day he will definitely become the old man in despair. According to the older waiter life is "full of nothing" (4) that follows and pesters people. He tries to persuade the younger waiter that having a drink in a café on your own is "not the same" (3) as going to unpleasant bodegas, however, the younger waiter fails to understand the difference. Moreover, he has little compassion of lonely people demonstrating a dismissive attitude toward human life saying "he should have killed himself" (2). So eager was he hurrying home that he has no time for sympathy. His rush home indicates his incapability to admit his own loneliness, which is not as noticeable at his age as both the older waiter and the old man, because he has "youth, confidence, and a job"(4). In contrast, the older waiter states that the café is a refuge for those who are lonely and "need a light for the night" (p.4). He believes that the café is a shelter for people in despair and makes every effort not to close the café in case "there may be some one who needs the café"(4) open late. Hemingway was a genius! Creating his characters he emphasized that loneliness follows …show more content…
She was in her 60th and she lived alone. She was not married, her son left her and she had no pets and no job. So, she need have found something to be engrossed in so that she would not feel lonely. What you should know is that elder people in my country, Ukraine, are not into using advanced methods, instead they do things in their own way because this is something they are used to doing and, moreover, they believe that is the only right thing to do so. Imagine, this woman wakes up at dawn, goes outside and starts polishing her pans, baking trays and frying pans by rubbing them with sand because she is convinced that is the best way of getting rid of soot from the dishes. Can you imagine the sound? Once I woke up at 5 a.m., went out because of the terrible noise she was making and asked her "What are you doing in such early time?". To my surprise, she answered "It is so nice to polish the pans at dawn. Nobody disturbs you and you can feel the silence". - "The silence?", I thought, but after reading "Clean Well-Lighted Place" I realized that her patio during the sun rise was her lighted place and was cleaning her pans perfectly because someone needed them as the older waiter cared about polishing the coffee