Hemingway’s story is postmodernism because of his minimalist writing, with only a few adverbs or adjectives, reporting dialogue cleanly and directly. Hemingway only includes the essential information in his story, omitting much of the background information. Therefore, his story is visible on the page, while the rest is left unsaid. The most descriptive line Hemingway gave the reader is the opening of the story, which, in fact, barely tells us any detail at all "It was late and every one had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light". We don't see the café, nor do we know where it is or anything else about it – however, Hemingway manages to sketch out just enough of the scene …show more content…
for us to create a feeling of the setting for us. This story is most likely based on Hemingway’s life experience. Hemingway fought in World War I and covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a war journalist as well. Later Hemingway dealt with depression and alcoholism, some themes in this depressing story relating to postmodern writing. Hemingway rarely specifies which waiter is speaking in the story because he has deemed it to be unnecessary because the core element is that two waiters are discussing a drunken old man. When the older waiter contemplates the idea of nothingness, Hemingway states with vague pronouns, never clarifying what they refer to: “It was all a nothing. . . . It was only that. . . . Some lived in it . . .” Although these lines are somewhat confusing, the confusion is the point. This nothingness can’t be defined clearly. Hemingway uses fewer words and lets the effect of his style speak for itself instead of writing in a traditional sense, and telling the reader exactly what is going on. One common, but dominant theme in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” is the omnipresent fear of nothingness. Each character shows different ways of how to deal with the fear of nothingness. However, only the older waiter is able to show a probable solution, establishing a safe place for desperate people who need to release their fears and emotions, and this is where the older waiter has found meaning and the ability to deal with his own fear. The older waiter believes that life does not need to come to an end in despair, as long as one keeps their dignity, and respect the dignity of others. The idea that an omnipresent fear of nothingness exists among humans drives them into despair, if one does not find a way to cope with this fear. Accordingly, they find their own way of dealing with the fear of nothingness, which is shown by each character of the story, but only the older waiter seems to be able to present a convincing possibility. On the basis that nothingness is not a specific threat, but a universal state, a certain uneasiness that shows different incarnations, which appear to every individual in different ways. One of the most fearsome incarnations of nothingness is death, which is present in the story in the death of the old man’s wife and his own attempted suicide. Death can occur to anyone at any time and is therefore a clear proof of the radical contingency and limitation of the human being. Hemingway also shows rhetorical modes in “A Clean Well Lighted Place”.
In it, fact meets fiction, revisiting history, revising previous texts, and resistance to traditional writing in the text. This is shown when religion is being acknowledged and repurposed for the story. In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Hemingway suggests that life has no meaning and that man is an insignificant speck in a great sea of nothingness. The older waiter makes this idea as clear as he can when he says, “It was all a nothing and man was a nothing too.” Rather than pray with the actual words, “Our Father who art in heaven,” the older waiter says, “Our nada who art in nada”—effectively wiping out both God and the idea of heaven in one breath. Not everyone is aware of the nothingness, however. For example, the younger waiter hurtles through his life hastily and happily, unaware of any reason why he should lament. For the old man, the older waiter, and the other people who need late-night cafés, however, the idea of nothingness is overwhelming and leads to despair. The young waiter reveals that there is absolutely no reason to commit suicide if one has money — which he's heard the old man has. For the young waiter, money solves all problems. For an old, rich man to try to commit suicide over the despair of confronting nothingness is beyond the young waiter's understanding. However, nothingness is the reason that the old man comes to the cafe every night and drinks until he is
drunk. In order to hold nothingness, darkness, nada at bay, we must have light, cleanliness, order, and dignity. If everything else has failed, man must have something to resort to or else the only option is suicide, which that is the ultimate end of everything: "It is all nothing that he knew too well. It was all nothing and a man was nothing. It was only that and light . . . and a certain cleanness and order." This story, however, lives up to the modernist name; it is an unconventional, short, psychological portrait of three characters. The inner monologue of the older waiter briefly dips into stream of consciousness mode. The story doesn't attempt to do anything we expect a short story to do; there is also no real conflict, and certainly no resolution. Rather, Hemingway simply depicts a series of moments in everyday life.
The main focus of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is on the pain of old age suffered by a man that we meet in a cafe late one night. Hemingway contrasts light and dark to show the difference between this man and the young people around him, and uses his deafness as an image of his separation from the rest of the world.
Analysis of Hemingway’s Narrative Technique as a Short- Story Writer. For many years, the narrative technique of Hemingway has been under debate. Writers before him had already achieved works that bear the characteristics of the modern short story, and many of their works could stand today, with those of Hemingway and of writers like Faulkner, as representative short stories of modern times. What distinguishes Hemingway both from his predecessors and from his contemporaries, however, is the theory he produces to deal with the challenge of spatial limitation which every short story writer has to face: how can he say more than his space actually allows him to say?
... seemingly simplistic. Hemingway discovered a way to demonstrate the complexity of the human spirit and identity through simplistic diction, word choice, and sentence structure. The story is only a small part of the deeper inner complex of the narrative. The short story allows a fluidity of thoughts between the individual and the characters without ever actually describing their thoughts. With no ending the story is completely left to interpretation providing no satisfactory ending or message.
Earnest Hemingway is known for leaving things out in his writing. He believed that if you knew something well enough, you could leave it out and still get your point across. In the short story "The End of something", he leaves a few things out. Some things he doesn't say at all and others the reader knows something before he says it. He must have know what he was writing about because he the reader can infer certain things.
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most significant novelists of the 20th century .He was born in twenty first of July, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, as a young man he worked in the school newspaper and then in graduation instead of going to college, he went to the Kansas City Star to work for newspapers, that background in journalism had a lot to do with his later literary style . Ernest Hemingway writing style was significant because he was so brief and straightforward with his short concise sentences. During world war one he served as an ambulance driver and then he moved to Paris when he wrote his first novel” The Sun Also Rises“ in 1926. His works had a big success, but his life was stormy, he had this pathological thing that as soon she married one woman he fell in love with another one usually much younger one and his happened over and over again . He was married four times, with his first wife Hadley they had a son John with his second wife Pauline he had two sons Patric and Gregory, he was then married to the journalist Martha Gellhorn and then finally to Mary Welsh. In 1951 Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize of “The Old Man and The Sea” and two years later he was honored with the noble prize in literature. In his later life he felt depression , anxiety probably mental illness , he suffered with alcoholism with an ongoing battle with entertainments in his life .He committed suicide when finally he found that all the virtues that he could have valued such as self controlled ad health productivity had to come and end. Hemingways greatest work may have been his life , the life that he lived, he continued being a writer, not just sitting in an isolated room but gambling and make a show about it . Ernest Hemingway wrot...
Ernest Hemingway was a man whose writing could be summed up as minimalistic and dynamic. While his stories at first glance seem simple, they are deceptively so. He wrote sharp, deliberate dialogue with exact descriptions of places and things. A postmodernist icon, Hemingway broke chronology in his stories and nudged towards the idea of multiple truths. In his story, "In Another Country" he uses both of these postmodern techniques. By effectively using fewer words than his contemporaries to deliver works that resonated stronger with his audience, Ernest Hemmingway earned his place as one of the great postmodernists of the twentieth century.
When a writer picks up their pen and paper, begins one of the most personal and cathartic experiences in their lives, and forms this creation, this seemingly incoherent sets of words and phrases that, read without any critical thinking, any form of analysis or reflexion, can be easily misconstrued as worthless or empty. When one reads an author’s work, in any shape or form, what floats off of the ink of the paper and implants itself in our minds is the author’s personality, their style. Reading any of the greats, many would be able to spot the minute details that separates each author from another; whether it be their use of dialogue, their complex descriptions, their syntax, or their tone. When reading an excerpt of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast one could easily dissect the work, pick apart each significant moment from Hemingway’s life and analyze it in order to form their own idea of the author’s voice, of his identity. Ernest Hemingway’s writing immediately comes across as rather familiar in one sense. His vocabulary is not all that complicated, his layout is rather straightforward, and it is presented in a simplistic form. While he may meander into seemingly unnecessary detail, his work can be easily read. It is when one looks deeper into the work, examines the techniques Hemingway uses to create this comfortable aura surrounding his body of work, that one begins to lift much more complex thoughts and ideas. Hemingway’s tone is stark, unsympathetic, his details are precise and explored in depth, and he organizes his thoughts with clarity and focus. All of this is presented in A Moveable Feast with expertise every writer dreams to achieve. While Hemingway’s style may seem simplistic on the surface, what lies below is a layered...
Ernest Hemingway's short story titled "A Clean Well-Lighted place" deals with the loneliness, isolation, and depression felt by many during the modernist period. The story takes place in a well lit café, occupied by two waiters (one old, and one young) and an old deaf man. This story is the perfect example of the modernist form because it questions the meaning of life. Joseph Gabriel, in is essay titled "The Logic of Confusion in: Hemingway's "A Clean well Lighted Place", believes that "the dominant visual image of the story is the radical contrast between the minute spot of light represented by the café and the infinite surrounding darkness outside."(Joseph Gabriel, The Logic of Confusion in: Hemingway's "A Clean well Lighted Place", Pg, 541) One can't help but compare the story to the image of moths att...
In 1933, Ernest Hemmingway wrote A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. It's a story of two waiters working late one night in a cafe. Their last customer, a lonely old man getting drunk, is their last customer. The younger waiter wishes the customer would leave while the other waiter is indifferent because he isn't in so much of a hurry. I had a definite, differentiated response to this piece of literature because in my occupation I can relate to both cafe workers.
..., Well-Lighted Place”, represent the opinions and views of one typical person, in one ordinary life. The theme of a world of nothingness is overwhelming to the human brain, and almost inconceivable, and everything we do in this life is simply designed to help us take our mind off of death; suicide is the ultimate escape from “despair” over “nothing” (494). Hemingway’s brilliant transitions in time explain how life eventually grows worse with age, and humans will succumb to suicide, drunkenness, or something comforting and safe, much like a clean, well-lighted cafe. Further, Hemingway has shown the world that man has created many bogus ways to cope with the insurmountable fear of nothingness, namely religion. People can try to kid their selves into feeling soulful, genuine, or meaningful, but there is no need to “fear for [the human] soul”, as it is non-existent.
Hemingway’s writing style is not the most complicated one in contrast to other authors of his time. He uses plain grammar and easily accessible vocabulary in his short stories; capturing more audience, especially an audience with less reading experience. “‘If you’d gone on that way we wouldn’t be here now,’ Bill said” (174). His characters speak very plain day to day language which many readers wouldn’t have a problem reading. “They spent the night of the day they were married in a Bostan Hotel” (8). Even in his third person omniscient point of view he uses a basic vocabulary which is common to the reader.
Hemingway has a very simple and straightforward writing style, however his story lacks emotion. He makes the reader figure out the characters’ feelings by using dialogue. “‘I haven’t seen you since I’ve been back’ [.]
The atmosphere of a well-lighted place may bring comfort to one 's darkness. With living each day, some may just live to pass time and others will live to become a greater something and to achieve. The older waiter in this story fits the characteristics of an existentialist. The older waiter has very little left in his life to look forward to, and the cafe isn 't just a job to him, its something to wake up for. "I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe" (203), "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night" (203). These quotations from the older waiter show not only the connection he feels with the old man, sharing the same feeling. With a life filled with darkness, both the old man and older waiter, find comfort in the well-lighted cafe. Due to the conversations between both the younger waiter and older, they share vastly different perspectives on everything. The older waiter is very skeptical and does not have enough in life to cherish. Although he did not go to the extreme of trying to end his life, he lives each day dying rather than
In novels or other literary works many authors write about things they dream about. Many write about what stories they have heard from fellow companions. None have written about such vivid, yet traumatic experiences as the twentieth century writer, Ernest Hemingway. That is why Hemingway's tend to concur to his real life experiences.
Leadership, without doubt, is a significantly important function of management. It helps to aggrandize efficiency and to fulfil an organization’s goals. Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce the subordinates to work with confidence, determination, courage and zeal. It is also defined as ability to influence a group towards the realization of a goal. Leaders should have the capability of developing future visions, and to drive the organizational members to want to attain the visions. This paper states my points in which I duly believe, justifies the importance of an outstanding leader in any organization.