What Is The Tone Of A Clean Well Lighted Place

I liked Ernest Hemmingway’s fictional short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” on page 168 a lot partly because there’s a lot of dialogue between the three characters in a café located in Spain. I viewed the three main characters in the story as an implied progression from youth through middle age to old age. The story didn’t seem to have any elements of satire or comedy in it, it pretty much focused on dialogue. I love how Hemmingway plays with symbolism between the three characters, and sets a certain tone throughout the story. Hemmingway focuses on the tone and attitude of the characters in the cafe a great deal throughout the story. The story is told from a third person point of view.
2. Explain context for author, characters, and reader.
In world war 1, as an eighteen-year old volunteer ambulance driver in Italy, he was wounded in action. In 1922 he settled in Paris, then aswarm with writers; he later recalled that time in A Moveable Feast (1964). The Nobel Prize in Literature came his way in 1954. In 1961, mentally distressed and physically ailing, he shot himself. Hemmingway brought a hard-bitten realism to American Fiction. (Kennedy) The story takes place in a café in Spain. Th characters in the story consist of the young waiter, old waiter, and the old man.
3. Explicate story by analyzing relevance of 10 literary elements.
The literary elements within the story consist of: Diction, comedy, satire, irony, setting, tone, symbols, metaphor, empathy and imagery. The most obvious example of irony is whether fact that both the old man and the "older" waiter prefer to stay out late while the young man in the story prefers to go home early. The setting of the story mostly takes place in a café in Spain. An example of diction within the story was
4. List at least 20 tensions