'A Clean Well Lighted Place- Ernest Hemmingway Summary\r'

'â€Å"A Clean, lighted Place” Theme Analysis â€Å"I wouldnt indispensability to be that r be. An h integrityst-to-goodness service earth is a awed thing. ” â€Å"Not always. This doddery existence is clean. He toasts without spilling. flush now, drunk. Look at him. ” -Ernest Hemmingway The every(prenominal)egory written by Ernest Hemmingway tells of a deaf oldish creation who is in conversation with others at a cafe in the late dark hours. The others in the story’s setting sh be a epochal residue of mount up and opinion. It seems they depict their ages as stages of living.\r\nThe story contains a lot of noteworthy attributes, behaviors and decisions that give us hints as to what the story is supposed to represent. Characters within the story argon divided into four age groups, each having varied characteristics and behaviors, as yet every waiting for their time to in which they face the inevitable and depart from the physical est ate of living and into what follows. The old man is describe as a deaf and depressed man who tried to nurse his life away a workweek prior the story’s setting.\r\nIt is said in the story the man is financially stable and is a frequent guest in the cafe that is rise lighted and clean, unlike bars or bodegas . The story also is able to show the old man’s loneliness, sadness, and distress. Also, the waiters are sharing significant differences betwixt them; the youthfulness waiter is in a speed to withdraw from work and go home to his wife, he is unsympathetic for the old man, he shows a disliking to him, and displays beat back towards the idea of matureting old and the old man himself. It seems as if the preteen bartender has no delay for the old man life and holds no go out to it.\r\nUnlike the fourth-year bartender who tries to understand the old man’s condition and is curious of his self-destruction attempt. The older waiter himself is not in the hurry, afterward leaving work he goes to the bar to get a drink and then finally locomote asleep upon the dawn. The experience characters, however not as significant but symbolic, are a modern soldier and a adolescent girl who are just strolling done the street at night. The story reveals interesting patterns based on the age of characters. The one-year-old couple strolling through the street at night gives us as an image of how young sight are free and independent.\r\nHaving their whole life in front of them, they explore their surroundings, strive for new experiences and applaud life without taking a break to plosive speech sound and think where it is leading. The young bartender is a described to be in the next level in life. He is probably one or peradventure two decades older then the soldier and young girl. Hemmingway gives us indirect hints of the characteristics in which a center field stage life in an adult would exhibit. The young bartender is in a hurry to lea ve the cafe and go home to his wife. â€Å"I wouldn’t want to be that old” he says during the duologue with another bartender.\r\nAt some point, upset nigh having to serve the old man who pr flushts him to close up the cafe and go home he even says, â€Å"He should have killed himself last week. ” It shows how this character is fascinate by own enquires and wants. It shows his life as having purpose or heart, time for himself, and an outlook for the future of him and his family. Perhaps, at this point of life, Hemmingway tries to tell us that multitude are confined within their own individualized spaces, living a fast-paced life and laborious to accomplish as much as likely with no little regard towards others.\r\nThey do not look towards life’s philosophy and take that approach very lightly carefully avoiding the the true behind life, because they’re simply churn uped by it. Conceivably, materialistic good is a measure of enjoyment at that age. The conversation in the midst of him and the other bartender reveals that in his mind despair over life couldn’t be caused by anything but money. When the older bartender tells him he’s got everything †confidence, youth and work, the young bartender simply replies â€Å"Come on. Stop public lecture nonsense. . . .”\r\nThe older bartender, no doubt, is closer emotionally to the old man. He is far from beingness in a hurry. The sight of the financially well old man who frequently stays until the last possible drink at the cafe, and has tried to commit suicide week before captivates him. In a way he can relate to the old man, and views him as mortal who, like him, has contributed his time and life by years. He questions the junior bartender about circumstances nigh his suicide attempt as well as trying to defend the old man from exacting opinions expressed by his co-worker. Why didn’t you let him stay and drink? ” the old waiter asks the younger bartender when he refused to serve the old man any more even though the time for completion was an hour away. Then he concludes â€Å"I am of those who do not want to go to bed. [I am] with all those who need a light for the night . . . We are two of assorted kinds. ” The author leaves it to our imagination to take in what the bartender meant by the â€Å"light” for the night however the distinction between two characters that is linked to their age is significant.\r\nThe older waiter is slowly getting through the stage of life preceding that of the old lone(a) man. The â€Å"light” might be a symbol for the hope or motivation for the life to continue. junior characters of the story did not have a need for that hope as they had everything †confidence, youth, work and most importantly †the time. The old man is the most important auspicate in the story. Even though he is not part of conversation and does not say more than simple w ords, he is a symbol of the last stage of one’s life. Hemmingway shows that stage as depressing, a lonely time in one’s life.\r\nHe shows the old man as having realized the meaningless of life, the old man’s need to move on. The suicide attempt was significant as well as the fact that the old man was deaf, because it shows the man’s loneliness, his need to be with others, and is desperate attempt to end the quiet down, he feels he is confined to his own lonely thoughts by being deaf and wants goose egg more than to end the silence with death, because death or life means nothing to him. The story is constructed in a very instructive way; by including the different age groups and the different opinions of life and its worth to others.\r\nIt is interesting to see the distinguish views of the individuals as they journey through life and all its experiences. Take the epigraph above; it shows to vivid contrast between the old and the young bartender. The yo ung bartender shows his disgust in getting old, and his avoidance of it, while the old bartender in his quote shares his appreciation for adulthood and the life’s worth. It is something to take from this story that as we all live to understand life and its meaning with different views and opinions, we share one thing in common and that is the inevitable.\r\n'