"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" Ernest Hemingway

I.

The setting to A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is late night in the 1920s at a cafe where there are two waiters and an old man. "In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settleed the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference."The characters could be nameless because the author decided it to be that way, Hemingway's stories are not the normal style of writing. However, having the characters nameless made the story interesting.

Knowing quite a bit about Hemmingway i would say the significance is probably because it was based on a certain experience that he encountered in his lifetime.

The connection between the old man and the older waiter is that they are lonely (living alone and single), and they both suffer from insomnia.

The plot of the story:
Conflict: The old man wants another drink after he is already drunk and the cafe is ready to close down and the young waiter causes a scene inregards to this.
Rising Action: When the young bartender tells him he should've killed himself last week and the older bartender begins to speak his mind.
Complications: The old man asks for another drink. The young waiter sees it as hes being selfish instead of making more business.
Climax: The climax of the story is when the older waiter defends himself and the old man to the young waiter by telling him how the lifestyle of old people are. And after the young waiter goes home the older waiter continues talking and begins saying the Our Father prayer and throwing in the word nada instead of the actual words that are used in the prayer.
Falling Action:When the older waiter stops to have a drink at the bar but decides that the cafe is much better to him.

The Theme of this story is good character: not about winning or losing its more how you play your cards.

II.

Ernest Hemmingway was born 1899 in Illinois. He had taken journalism/writing in school and joined forces to help those during war periods in Paris. From then on his writing skills matured and intensified making him one of the "modernistas" of that time. Four specific elements of his life that is related to the story are the following. Hemingway was a raging alcoholic as was the old man in the story. Hemingway and Old Man were suicidal. Hemingway and Old man have something in common about the war, soldiers/volunteers. And they were both wealthy however the old man died after his wife, whereas Hemmingway died before his wife.