Analysis Of A Clean Well Lighted Place By Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story Analysis
Ernest Hemingway was a Nobel Prize winning Author who was forced to cope with a great deal of strife and hardship throughout his life. He served in World War 1 and sustained injuries that would shape the early years of his life. He was married to four different women, and appeared to have problems created from his desire to adventure and travel the world. In 1933 when he wrote “A Clean Well Lighted place” he was going through an adventurous time of his life, and preparing to enter his third marriage. He seemed to be dealing with problems surrounding the development of his adult life.
In Hemingway’s “A clean Well Light Place” the story depicts the different stages of a man’s life, and he accomplishes this by controlling the point of view of the story. Rather than telling a story that is open to interpretation, he tells the audience the important facts and details of why people are acting the way that they chose. This use of third person omniscient prevents us from misconstruing the interactions between the main characters.
The Old Man
The story is based around the

His views are overall understanding, but is still riddled with uncertainty and doubt throughout the story. Hemingway, (2013) expands on the older waiter’s dilemma by writing:
“It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues