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Dark Against Light in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Title: Dark Against Light in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1149 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dark Against Light in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Dark Against Light in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
The main character in “A Clean, Well- Lighted Place,”
written by Ernest Hemingway, is the old man. The old man, who
remains nameless throughout the short story, comes to the café
for the light it provides him against the dark night. He stays
late into the night, and sits “In the shadow the leaves of the
tree made against the electric light.” The old man is deaf …showed first 75 words of 1149 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1149 total…the older waiter blames it
all on insomnia. He claims “Many must have it.” Like the old
man, the older waiter and many others who have experienced the
nothingness of darkness, long for the light and cleanness of a
café open late at night. Maybe it is insomnia. Whatever the
case, it is like an illness which the victim suffers from the
fear of nothingness and of being alone that comes with old age.
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