Examples Of Empathy In A Clean Well-Lighted Place By Hemingway

Empathy was one of Hemingway’s earliest works focused on a value. Hemingway understand that everyone gets old and years go on. For example, in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, the café was going ready to close, and everyone in the café left except there was only an old man at the bar. The young waiter is rude to the old man because he wants to go home to his wife. The young waiter says to the old man, "You should have killed yourself last week?" (from the book). The young waiter is very judgmental and self-centered, which there is not very much empathy from the young waiter. However, the older waiter is understanding and companionate of the old man because the older waiter realizes that the old man drinking brandy after brandy meaning that the