A Clean Well Lighted Place- Ernest Hemmingway Summary

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Theme abstract I wouldnt want to be that elder. An of age(predicate) domainhood is a nasty thing. Not always. This senile creation is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now, drunk. Look at him. -Ernest Hemmingway The story written by Ernest Hemmingway tells of a deaf middle-aged man who is in conversation with others at a cafe in the late night hours. The others in the storys setting share a significant difference of age and opinion. It seems they depict their ages as stages of deportment snip.The story contains a lot of noteworthy symbols, behaviors and decisions that give us hints as to what the story is supposed to represent. Characters at heart the story are divided into four age groups, each having distinguishable characteristics and behaviors, heretofore all time lag for their time to in which they face the inevitable and depart from the physical realm of living and into what follows. The old man is described as a deaf and depres sed man who tried to take his emotional state international a week prior the storys setting.It is said in the story the man is financially stable and is a frequent guest in the cafe that is well percipiented and clean, unlike prohibit or bodegas . The story also is able to show the old mans l superstarliness, sadness, and distress. Also, the waiters are overlap significant differences betwixt them the boyish waiter is in a hurry to leave work and go home to his wife, he is unsympathetic for the old man, he shows a disliking to him, and displays disgust towards the idea of getting old and the old man himself. It seems as if the boyish barkeep has no appreciation for the old man life and holds no regard to it.Unlike the older bartender who tries to witness the old mans go over and is curious of his suicide attempt. The older waiter himself is not in the hurry, after leaving work he goes to the bar to get a drink and then finally falls asleep upon the dawn. The run low cha racters, however not as significant but symbolic, are a young soldier and a young girl who are just strolling by dint of the street at night. The story reveals interesting patterns based on the age of characters. The young couple strolling through the street at night gives us as an contrive of how young people are free and independent.Having their whole life in front of them, they explore their surroundings, get through for new experiences and enjoy life without taking a break to stop 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 perhaps two decades older then the soldier and young girl. Hemmingway gives us indirect hints of the characteristics in which a middle stage life in an adult would exhibit. The young bartender is in a hurry to leave the cafe and go home to his wife. I wouldnt want to be that old he says during the dialog with another bartender.At some point, upset about having to help the old man who prevents him to close up the cafe and go home he even says, He should open killed himself in the end week. It shows how this character is captivated by own needs and wants. It shows his life as having purpose or meaning, 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 people are confined inside their own personal spaces, living a fast-paced life and trying to accomplish as more as possible with no little regard towards others.They do not look towards lifes philosophy and take that approach very inflammationly carefully avoiding the truth behind life, because theyre obviously disgusted by it. Conceivably, materialistic good is a measure of happiness at that age. The conversation between him and the other bartender reveals that in his mind despair over life couldnt be caused by anything but money. When the older bartender tells him hes got everything confidence, youth and work, the youn g bartender simply replies make out on. Stop talking nonsense. . . .The older bartender, no doubt, is closer emotionally to the old man. He is far from existence 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 someone who, like him, has contributed his time and life by years. He questions the younger bartender about circumstances around his suicide attempt as well as trying to defend the old man from arrogant opinions expressed by his co-worker. wherefore didnt you let him stay and drink? the old waiter asks the younger bartender when he refused to serve the old man anymore even though the time for closing was an hour away. Then he concludes 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 different kinds. The author leaves it to our imagination to interpret what the bartender meant by the light for the night however the distinction between two characters that is linked to their age is significant.The older waiter is soft getting through the stage of life preceding that of the old nonsocial man. The light might be a symbol for the hope or motivation for the life to continue. Younger characters of the story did not have a need for that hope as they had everything confidence, youth, work and just about importantly the time. The old man is the most important figure in the story. Even though he is not part of conversation and does not say more than simple words, he is a symbol of the last stage of ones life. Hemmingway shows that stage as depressing, a lonely time in ones life.He shows the old man as having realized the meaningless of life, the old mans need to move on. The suicide attempt was significant as well as the fact that the old man was deaf, because it shows the mans loneliness, his need to be wit h others, and is desperate attempt to end the silence, he feels he is confined to his own lonely thoughts by being deaf and wants nothing more than to end the silence with death, because death or life means nothing to him. The story is constructed in a very enlightening way by including the different age groups and the different opinions of life and its worth to others.It is interesting to see the contrasting 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 young bartender shows his disgust in getting old, and his avoidance of it, while the old bartender in his advert shares his appreciation for maturity and the lifes 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.