A Well Lighted Place

A clean well lighted place by ernest hemingway.

A well lighted place. A clean well lighted place is a short story by american author ernest hemingway first published in scribner s magazine in 1933. Late at night a deaf old man is the sole patron in a cafe. Analysis of the two major characters in a clean well lighted place by ernest hemingway does contain spoilers one of the major and most ostensible distinctions between the two major characters the two waiters in hemingway s short story is the age difference. One of the waiters is younger and the other is older probably a.

A clean well lighted place much anthologized short story by ernest hemingway first published in scribner s magazine in march 1933 and later that year in the collection winner take nothing late one night two waiters in a café wait for their last customer an old man who has recently attempted suicide to leave. In the day time the street was dusty but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit. It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. A clean well lighted place is a short story by ernest hemingway that was first published in 1933.

The young waiter serving him is frustrated that he ll be stuck at the café serving the old drunk instead of at home in bed with his wife a grievance he airs to the older waiter working with him. Summary analysis late in the night everyone has left the caf. Nearby two waiters one young the other older talk about him.