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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was published by Scribner's Magazine in



March of 1933, but it was not until 1956 that an apparent inconsistency in



the waiters' dialogue was brought to Hemingway's attention. Hemingway's



thirteen word reply to Judson Jerome, an Assistant Professor of English at



Antioch College, said that he had read the story again and it still made



perfect sense to him. Despite this letter, Scribner's republished "A



Clean, Well-Lighted Place" in 1965 with a slight change in the waiters'



dialogue that they argued would fix the apparent anomaly.



Scribner's decision to alter the original text, the letter Hemingway wrote



to Professor Jerome, and several papers on the subject all add up to a



literary controversy that still churns among Hemingway scholars. I will



argue that the original text is the correct text and Scribner's just



failed to interpret it properly. They failed to notice nuances in



Hemingway's writing that......

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