A Clean Well Lighted Place
Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place The theme that Ernest Hemmingway captures in a clean well- lighted place that is prominent to me is despair. There is only one customer inside the café which is an old man, deaf, drunk but peaceful. In some ways the old man and the older waiter are alike. The old man has struggles so he spends time at the café. In this short story Hemmingway uses the setting of the story to bring out the theme. The setting achieves the mood of the story and captures the lesson to be learned. What is the significance of the title in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"? Dictionary. com defines despair as loss of hope, hopelessness. To lose, give up, or be without hope.
Another word despair is known by is depression. Depressions can be described as feeling sad, unhappy or even miserable. Most of us feel this way at one time or another in our lives for short periods of time and for others even longer. Some people can cope and others cannot and resort to suicide.
The old man struggles with old age and the feeling of nothingness which is representative of the darkness outside of the café. He is unhappy and discontented with life. The well-lit café represents order and cleanliness. The old man spends his time at the café because it brings him a sense of comfort. The older waiter at the café sympathizes with the old man. He recognizes that sometimes someone might need to take refuge in a "clean, well-lighted place," rather than a dark, dim bar or bodega as said in Hemmingway’s short story.
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place, represent the perspective of one average person, in one normal life. With his theme of a world compelled of nothingness. Our day to day actions in this life is to help us avoid the thought of death. Suicide is the ultimate escape from despair over nothing. Ernest Hemingway’s outstanding intellect explains how one’s life ultimately in time worsens with age. Some people will either cave in to suicide, drunkenness, or
Another word despair is known by is depression. Depressions can be described as feeling sad, unhappy or even miserable. Most of us feel this way at one time or another in our lives for short periods of time and for others even longer. Some people can cope and others cannot and resort to suicide.
The old man struggles with old age and the feeling of nothingness which is representative of the darkness outside of the café. He is unhappy and discontented with life. The well-lit café represents order and cleanliness. The old man spends his time at the café because it brings him a sense of comfort. The older waiter at the café sympathizes with the old man. He recognizes that sometimes someone might need to take refuge in a "clean, well-lighted place," rather than a dark, dim bar or bodega as said in Hemmingway’s short story.
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A Clean Well-Lighted Place, represent the perspective of one average person, in one normal life. With his theme of a world compelled of nothingness. Our day to day actions in this life is to help us avoid the thought of death. Suicide is the ultimate escape from despair over nothing. Ernest Hemingway’s outstanding intellect explains how one’s life ultimately in time worsens with age. Some people will either cave in to suicide, drunkenness, or
Cited: Dictionary.com. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/despair. Web. Kennedy, X. J., and Gioia, Dana. Backpack Literature: An introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, and writing. Boston: Longman, 2011. Print.