A Clean Well Lighted Place Hemingway

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How would a day understand the dark of the night? How would a young man understand being old? How would person understand a world that they are not in it? After I read Hemingway’s story “A clean Well Lighted Place”, these questions all come to fill my head. Hemingway just throws these entire problems out without any solutions. There are many conflicts in this story, however when I think the conflicts between youth and old; the conflict between go home to sleep and stay outside; the conflict between “a clean, well lighted coffer shop” and bar or bodegas, those are the most interested parts for me. Through Hemingway’s simple and easy dialogs, I realize being old and lonely are universal problems. We can only understand them how it feels until we are old. Hemingway doesn’t give us any solution, and he doesn’t blame the world is unfair to the old men either. He knows this is a progress that everyone will go through it, not matter he is rich or poor. …show more content…

The young waiter mentions several times about go back to home and go to sleep. However the old waiter and the old deaf man avoid staying at home by themselves. The old waiter says that there is nothing around him, and he gets nothing but a job. From this I can see the reason that the old deaf man tries to kill himself is loneliness. They don’t have a place to put their heart in. The house for them is like a prison. The old waiter understands how old deaf man’s feeling because after his work done, he does the same thing just like the old man does. I could see that he is suffered with loneliness too. However, he can’t find a nice clean café shop either. He can only feel better when he thinks that lots of people have “insomnia” too just like he does. I think this conflict shows us how author thinks about the world himself. After all these years’ hard work and pursuit of happiness, he realizes that even we could own everything we want, indeed we are still

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