A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” written by Ernest Hemingway, is about an old waiter and a young waiter working in a café. Also there is a deaf old man who is getting drunk in the bar. The younger waiter is aggravated that the old man will not leave the café so. The young waiter wants to get home before 3:00a.m. The old waiter would leave the café open for the old man because he reminds …showed first 75 words of 821 total…

…showed last 75 words of 821 total…heart and soul. When the waiter finally makes it home there is no one there, he lies in his bed and when the daylight comes he falls to sleep. He tries to reason with himself by saying “After all it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it”. (448) By saying this he is trying to make up reasons for him not wanting to go home, instead of saying that he is lonely and in despair.