A Clean Well-Lighted Place

First reviewing, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" composed by Ernest Hemingway, the story seems to be a very inexpressive, almost incomplete, and modest one. However, when readers air for a much deeper understanding, they can discover how eloquent this story is. The author's style progressively conveys the readers to a developed level of understanding the authenticity of life. The certainty is suppressed below the story the demonstrative obscurity, existential unhappiness, and subsequent loneliness, caused by the nothingness, or as expressed in the story, “nada.”
Animated darkness is the original component that must be extended when evaluating the theme of the story. The symbol of an unfilled, pointless life, emotional blackness, surrounds the

The recurrence of significant confrontations, such as "the old man sitting in the shadow," indicates the complexities of the loneliness the old man undergoes and the strength of his departure from the remaining of the world. The identical impression is revealed by the old man's deafness. He "liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference" (Hemingway 159). He is not just exactly deaf, but deaf to the world. The older waiter comprehends this. He distinguishes what it is to sense hollowness, to live on an abandoned island. In contrast with the younger waiter who has "youth, confidence, and a job" and also a wife, the older waiter lacks "everything but work" (Hemingway 161). The old waiter goes home as late at night as possible and only falls asleep as the light makes its’ in. In “A man of the world and A clean well-lighted place: Hemingway’s unified view of old age.” by John Leonard argues that “the loneliness that is portrayed, add their gloomy implication to the view of age”

In “The characterization and dialogue problem in Hemingway’s A clean, well-lighted place,” by Warren Bennett, he shapes that “it is Hemingway’s early vision of man’s frustrated impulse to religious belief. The practicality of which is overwhelmed by man's existential vision of the world as Godless and meaningless, and beyond which is nada, or "nothingness."” However, the author displays a way to get away from the pain of "nada." In order to live on with self-worth, to swindler the "nada," one has to discover a place, an enjoyable one at that, "with the light, a certain cleanness, and order." (Hemingway