A Clean Well Lighted Place

At the beginning of the story, the narrator provides a brief description of himself that allows readers to reflect upon his character and morality. He introduces himself as someone who believes that

Sadness, frustration, or discontent, however it’s put, there is an obvious difference with the characters in, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, and their ideas of mortality and old age. The short story shows the concept of “nothingness,” displayed through a very depressing view on life. This suggesting that all people, even those who are happy and content, will eventually end up lonely, drunk, or unhappy. By allowing a reader to view this from three diverse perspectives, Hemingway is able to render how someone’s attitude of their own life can go from one extreme to another. Allowing suicide as a final option to surface for some.

The story is on third-person (objective), but if the story were to be explained in omniscient first person, we would not have gotten all the information. we would not have gotten all the information about the persons thoughts.

In the novel, the author uses characters in the novel to narrate the story in their eyes, therefore being a first person but in some parts in the novel, the narration is seen from an omniscient point of view. Though the novel is mainly first person, some can argue that some parts are in different point of

First, let’s talk about the narrator in the story. The narrator is the “I,” the main watcher who has

When a story is written in the omniscient point of view, the reader will have a variety of reactions to different characters because he/she knows a lot of information about all of them.

The narrator is used by the author to tell the

Ernest Hemingway's short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," first published in 1933, is written in his characteristic terse style. It is the story of two waiters having a conversation in a café, just before closing up and going home for the night. They cannot leave because they still have a customer. One is anxious to get home to his wife, while the other sympathizes with the old man sitting at the table. Without realizing it, they are discussing the meaning of life.

1. I believe the narrator of the story is using third person omnicient. Third person omniecient is when the narator of a story is "all knowing". The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the charachters in the story.

-The narrator is an anonymous person detached from the novel. It is told through third person omniscient.

In the short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, two waiters in a café observe an old deaf man, and discuss how he attempted to commit suicide and failed. As the night goes on and the old man gets drunk, the two waiters debate on the topic of life and despair. The young waiter has both a wife and a job, so he is always eager to get home before three in the morning because he is doing a lot with his life. He even admits that he thinks that the old man should have killed himself so that the young waiter wouldn’t always have to leave the café so late. The old waiter on the other hand, only has a job so he sympathizes with the old man because the café is the only thing

In the story “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place” by Earnest Hemingway begins with the main character and his co-worker in a café. The two are analyzing, and discussing a deaf, drunk Oldman, who is their last customer of the day. As the deaf old man insists on having more whiskey, the main character informs the young waiter as to why and how the old man tried to commit suicide. They began to converse about the Oldman’s depressed life. The younger waiter is in a rush to go home to his wife, while the older waiter is patient and he stands up for the Oldman, being able to relate to him. Hemingway’s sentence structure and writing style represents the comparison and contrast between setting, people, and objects, along with emphasizing how it is to have and be nothing.

Viewpoint, is an outlook of a story, poem, or diary entry one chooses to write from. In the short story, “Story of an Hour”, the viewpoint is from a third person perspective of a lady, Mrs. Mallard, who has been struggling with heart troubles for a large percentage of her life. To write in a third person viewpoint of the main character is a remarkable skill that the author, Kate Chopin, has developed over her years of writing. In this short story, Chopin certainly explores the mind of Mrs. Mallard, who has received news on a railroad disaster that has killed her husband Brentley Mallard. This perspective shows the high intensity of emotion in each character, giving the reader a great understanding of how Mrs. Mallard is truly misunderstood and holds back from everyone around her including her husband. Third person, not only showed the reader the emotions stirring within the house, but the reactions of each and every character and how they dealt with the position of having to inform Mrs. Mallard of the shocking news of her husband’s death without initiating any of her heart problems, as well. Although, when having her Epiphany of her new life crushed by the news of her husband being completely safe was what initially caused initiated her heart problems. In the short story “The Story of an Hour” the reader is shown a third person point of view, which clearly shows all of the most important aspects of the story to help one understand and comprehend the shocking twist with ease.

This story was written by Hemingway in 1933. It details an evening's interaction between two waiters, and their differing perspectives of life. Hemingway uses an old man as a patron to demonstrate the waiter's philosophies. Hemingway is also visible in the story as the old man, someone who society says should be content, but has a significant empty feeling inside. What follows is a line-by-line analysis, putting emphasis on the philosophies of the waiters.

A clean well lighted place by Ernest Hemingway has a few themes that stand out clearly but the one theme that stands out to me is despair. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, despair means to lose all hope or confidence. In the story, the older waiter and the old deaf man somehow share a common bond of despair. Both men are of age and like to be out, late at night, alone. Asides from the story alone, the theme of the story can be brought out by the setting. The setting contributes to the story’s theme in different ways. The setting contributes to the mood of the story, to the structure of the story, and to the lesson of the story. The café represents salvation for despair which is shown through the setting of the