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    A CleanWell-Lighted Place Essay In Hemingway’s story‚ A CleanWell-Lighted Place‚ the setting is the key part of the story in relating to the characters. Simply because we don’t have much else to go by. The setting takes place in the café. Although we don’t have names‚ the main characters are the two waiters and the old man. The waiters stay at the café throughout the story. The café is‚ as the title states‚ clean and well lit.  It’s a pleasant café‚ and the light creates the shadows of leaves

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    Melissa Narvaez Essay Assignment #1 In the short story "A CleanWell-Lighted Place‚" Ernest Hemingway shows his unique style by using contrasting images of the old man and the discussion between the two waiters. One can see many themes that Hemingway uses throughout the story. For example‚ aging seems to be a main issue in the story. His text and choice of words give the reader a gloomy tone‚ especially in the beginning of the story: "It was late and every one had left the café except an

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    Henry Rodriguez Mrs. Misti Brock American Literature II Summer 2015 The Iceberg and Hemingway “A CleanWell-Lighted Place” (1933) by Ernest Hemingway takes a view from having characters explain what is really being told within the story. Hemingway was notoriously known for having his own style of writing‚ and “A CleanWell-Lighted Place” features his unadorned way of writing. Many contrasts towards the iceberg theory are found throughout this story‚ but Hemingway’s style of omission leaves readers

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    Loneliness is a horrid feeling which nobody can not escape from regardless the age or the surroundings. In the story "CleanWell- Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway it seems absolutely impossible to get rid of this terrifying feeling and the characters face loneliness in their own ways‚ but the youngest is not capable to admit to be influenced by solitude. Also‚ in the article "Loneliness – deficit openness in the situation changed" by A. G. Gizatulina the issue of loneliness becomes even more horrifying

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    "A Clean Well-lighted Place"‚ takes place at a cafe very late at night. Two waiters are watching their last‚ lingering customer‚ an old man‚ who is by now very drunk. The younger waiter’s impatience and the older waiter’s understanding toward the old man carry out the theme of the story: "It [life] was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too."(114) Man must consequently find something to distract himself from his horrible truth. For the old man and the older waiter‚ "a clean and well-lighted"

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    make “A CleanWell-Lighted Place” interesting to the readers. The plot is the chain of events that make up a story and grabs the attention of the audience. Readers will recognize that the five elements of plot are essential to making “A CleanWell-Lighted Place” a good story. The elements that make up the plot are exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and resolution. The exposition begins the story by introducing the characters and settings. The setting of the story is a clean and well-lit

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    [pic] BJTU’s Course Thesis for English Fiction Reading A CleanWell-Lighted Place – A Social Historical Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s A CleanWell-Lighted Place | |Institute: |School of LACS | | | |Major: |English | | | |Student: |Yubing

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    Ernest Hemmingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place The theme that Ernest Hemmingway captures in a clean well- lighted place that is prominent to me is despair. There is only one customer inside the café which is an old man‚ deaf‚ drunk but peaceful. In some ways the old man and the older waiter are alike. The old man has struggles so he spends time at the café. In this short story Hemmingway uses the setting of the story to bring out the theme. The setting achieves the mood of the story and captures

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    A Clean and Well-Lighted Place A Clean and Well-Lighted Place is a story about a lonely‚ but dignified older gentleman who‚ basically‚ has insomnia and can’t sleep. He is not like other men who go to bodegas and bars. He goes to escape the darkness and to have a drink. During this essay I’ve chosen to focus on themes and symbols. It’s clear that Hemingway suggest that life has no bigger and it’s every man for him self. Man is just an insignificant speck in a great pile of nothingness. The older

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    Existentialism in Hemingway’s” A CleanWell-Lighted Place “ismanifested all through the story. The first idea which the short story opens with isnothingness .Hemingway suggests that life is meaningless and empty. Nothingness can be found in this short story whose characters have no names. Also‚ there is no plot; there is no action. We know from the beginning of the story that the Old Man has unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide ‚Old Waiter asks the Young Waiter why the Old Man tried to commit

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