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"A Clean, Well Lighted Place"
Although tone is an extremely complicated issue to analyze, it is one of the most elementary literary elements. Like a tone of voice, the tone of a story may communicate joy, anger, love, sorrow, and contempt. It shows the feelings of the author, so greatly that we can sense them. The tone adds to the overall feeling, and effectiveness portrayed in any literary work. Those feelings may be similar to the feelings expressed by the narrator of the story, but sometimes they may be dissimilar, even sharply opposed. The characters in a story may be regarded even as sad, but we sense that the author regards it as funny, as in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well Lighted Place", where Hemingway purposively "sets up the aura" of an apathetic tone; using diction, imagery, and a third person point of view, by not directly confronting any emotions (Edel 270).
The indifferent use of diction in "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" is one of the most important additions......

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