“Cathedral” the main characters are the wife‚ the husband‚ and Robert. The husband is the antagonist while Robert is the protagonist. In “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” the three main characters are a customer who is an old man‚ a young waiter and older waiter. The younger waiter is the antagonist in while the old man is the protagonist. Both stories share the similarities between their characters that the protagonist and antagonist are both men. Robert in “Catherdral” is a friend of the antagonist’s wife
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Clean Well-Lighted Place‚ by Ernest Hemingway we see conversation between two waiters that work at an all night cafe. While they are working always every night a deaf drunken suicidal man comes to the cafe to countuin to booze leaving the younger waiter in pure anger because he claims to have more important things to go like go home to his wife than to pour more brandy for man. While on the other hand the older waiter is no rush to leave the cafe because they have no reason to leave and because they
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universe‚ regards human existence as unexplainable‚ and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts.” The most prominent theme of existentialism is that of nothingness. This is featured in the story through the old waiter when he comes to the conclusion that without motivation to live‚ one wanders in a world of nothingness. This story highlights issues like depression‚ isolation‚ aging and anguish‚ but are all centered on the theme of existentialism. One of the
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place while the waiters talk about the old man’s recent attempt of suicide. The younger waiter wants to go home and is inconsiderate towards the old man. He wishes the old man would have already killed himself so he can go home. The rising action allows for a smooth transition from exposition to climax. The climax is where the conflict reaches the high point in the story. The younger waiter intentionally overfills the old man’s glass to make him drunk. Once the old man is drunk the waiter denies him
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religion‚ although comforting‚ is just as meaningless in the end as a man is. “It was all nothing and a man was a nothing too”(5). Another time this is used in the story is when the waiters discuss the old man’s attempted suicide. The older waiter responds that he tried to kill himself over “nothing”. The young waiter interprets this as “no reason” and scoffs‚ saying that it doesn’t make sense. However‚ the reason actually is “nothing”; “nothing” being the emptiness that is present in all of us‚ and
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Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013 Theorizing the Absurd: Waiting for Godot Sixty Years After Vijay Kumar Rai Abstract The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s‚ developed
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Restaurant Operation Management EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project is about us being hired as a restaurant manager of a new American ethnic restaurant. It has a seating capacity of 80‚ which it serves mainly American cuisine accompanied with various types of alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages. The operation time is from 11am – 1am and our target market would consist of 50% local and 50% tourist. As restaurant manager‚ we are assigned to produce a proposal for this upcoming restaurant which will
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their own life can go from one extreme to another. Allowing suicide as a final option to surface for some. The story is told from a total omniscience narrator‚ allowing the reader to gain better knowledge of the three main characters; the two waiters who work at the café‚ and the deaf old man who enjoys looking out upon the empty street‚ as well as their lives outside of the café. “In the day time the street was dusty‚ but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because
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Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway begins with the two waiters working late at night and watching an old man from afar drinking his brandy. One waiter‚ who was young‚ was waiting anxiously for the old man to leave so he can go home and sleep. Whereas‚ the older waiter who also works there‚ was being patient and did not seem to mind that the old man was sitting alone in the Cafe late at night. As the waiters were watching the old man ‚ one of the waiters said that the old man tried to commit suicide‚ but
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the morning. A young waiter is upset‚ wishing that the old man would leave so that he and the older waiter could close the café and go home. However‚ the older waiter realizes that the old man must be lonely‚ especially since he had attempted to hang himself the week before. When the old man finally leaves the waiters close the café‚ with the younger waiter going home to his family and the older waiter wandering the streets to find his own clean‚ well-lit place. The older waiter strongly identifies
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