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A view on Clean, Well Lighted Place

1. A Clear, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway
2. Published in 1926.
3. The deaf old man is the protagonist in the story. A very lonely man who always sits by himself and gets drunk at the café. He is rich, has no wife, and only his niece is there to take care of him. His language is short and simple, using nothing but incomplete sentences in his interactions with the younger waiter.
4. The elder and younger waiter are the two antagonists in the story that are having a dispute about closing the bar early so that the younger waiter can go home a sleep with his wife. The elder waiter probably doesn’t have a wife because he doesn’t care to go home early, wishing to stay at the well-lit, polished café just incase another client comes in for a drink wanting a drink. The elder waiter prefers to stay in the light of the café than go home. He doesn’t like to sleep in the dark showing that maybe he himself is a lonely person like the old man. Both waiters a...

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