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Suliaman Zamarial
October 26, 2006
English 111-69
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
The story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is written by Ernest Hemingway. In this story he shows the difference between the light and darkness. Hemingway mainly focuses on the pain suffered by an old man and the nothingness he feels inside him late one night. The setting of this story is in a café which seems to be in a Spanish speaking country or neighborhood because of the language usage in the story. In this story, the characters are not named but labeled such as the old man, the young waiter and the old waiter.
To show the difference between the old man and the people around him, Hemingway contrasts light in the café and darkness inside the man which is growing into nothingness. Hemingway also uses the old man’s deafness as an image of separation from the rest of the world. The old man has reached to a point in his life where now he realizes the pointlessness of life and finds himself the lonely......

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