Clean Well Lighted Place

In the passage A Clean, Well Lighted Place written by Ernest Hemingway writes that he sees no future in his life, he is a very lonely man. The deaf old man likes to drink at the cafe he is at mostly everyday. The old man that sits by himself in a cafe restaurant drinking his brandy that the waiters poor for him. He comes in every night, sometimes drunker than other times. But when he does get drunk he will forget to pay the bill. The old man has tried to kill himself before for no reason. The old man was married at one point in this life, that he thinks is going no where. The younger waiter sends the old man home because they would soon be closing when they had him leave before he got to drunk. Some people need to see light and how clean other places are and not spend all the time in a dark bar. The older waiter goes to a bar and realizes that he needs light and not to be thinking bad things in a dark place.

From the words of Ernest Hemingway “We are of two different kinds, the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe” (Hemingway). The young waiter is the one who closes the shop not just because they will be closing soon he wants to go home to his wife. Also, seeing that being in a dark place for a long period of time is not where he wants to be. The older waiter thinks that they should stay open in case anyone off the streets needs to come in for a drink but noticed that he had better things ahead of him. On his way home he is thinking how life is meaningless to him. He needs to see the light at the end of the tunnel and realize that life has many things to pick from not always the dark