Week 11 A Clean,Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway takes a very simple approach to this story. His characters have no names, and are classified by whether they are young or old and two of them as their jobs as waiters. The younger waiter is frustrated with the old man because he won't leave the cafe. He makes the comment that he should of killed himself last week, like he was planning to do. This man has no sympthathy and is just concerned about himself and not the fact that this old man might be sticking around the cafe so he won't feel alone. The other waiter begins to explore the old man a bit more it why he was wanting to die. He feels like he doesn't have much going on in life similar to the old man. He is not confident and he is young and alone. He begins figuring out wrhat is important in life and all he is realizing is nothing. I found it very interesting how he took the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary and added nada to all the important words. Maybe he is searching for religion to come into his life and right now those words do make sense. The western world does not make sense at times and this man was just trying to go back to nothing and figure things out from nothing. Reading the short bio about Hemingway it seemed interesting that this story dealt with suicide and drinking something that is remembered by Hemingway's life.