Commentary on Ernest Hemingways A Clean Well Lighted Place
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The exposition just before Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," explains that he wrote many works of literature that touched his readers. He was well known for these works that changed literature in many ways. The story takes place in a comfortable caf during the middle of the night where two waiters, one young and one older, who are discussing one of their regular customers. He is a quiet, old man who visits the caf nightly to sit and drink. The man has recently attempted suicide and the waiters bring the matter up for discussion. I thought it was ironic how suicide was mentioned so early in the story since Ernest Hemingway committed suicide himself. It made me wonder if there was any correlation between the two events. I felt as if Hemingway was using this story to reveal some feelings he had about his own life.
The younger waiter was very impatient with the old man; he wasn't concerned about him or his well being at all. His only concern was getting the man to leave so he could go home and sleep...