What Is Existentialism In A Clean Well Lighted Place

Existentialism is the theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will. Some people find their own purpose in their life such as family, job and religion. However, as soon as people get old, they realize that their purpose is not what they thought it was. For instance, in the story, “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place” an old man had his purpose, which was his wife, and lost it. He had to find a new purpose which was the Café. In the poem, “The Snow Man” his purpose is the winter. The article, “A Hunger Artist” is about a man whose purpose is to entertain his audience. All the people in these stories have found their purpose in life.
To begin with, in the story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place “ an old man who struggled to find a way to deal with the despair of losing his wife needed to find his new purpose in life. In the literary, Ernest Hemingway writes, “It was
He lacked attention from the audience and he had to find his purpose in life. In the article, Will and Edwin Muir write that, “The Hunger Artist had been applauded by thousands in his time and could hardly come down to showing himself in a street booth at village fair and as for adapting another profession, he was not only too old for that but too fanatically devoted to fasting”(3). He wanted people to admire him for his passion of fasting. He liked to go to different areas in towns and lock himself in the cage. He was fasting because in his life, he could not find any food that he liked. He thought that people did not appreciate his work so the hunger artist found a new and exciting way to fast; he would join a circus and be inside a cage where he would enjoy attention from many people. He found that his purpose in life was fasting, even though the audience did not appreciate his passion of