A Clean Well Lighted Place

Clean Well-Lighted PlaceIn “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, Earnest Hemingway focuses on the pain ofold age suffered by a man that we meet in a café late one night. Throughthe use of dialogue, Hemingway creates three characters that symbolize thestages of life: birth, living, and death. Additionally, the tone of the story iscreated in three ways….

The conversation starts out with the narrator setting up the story and the scene, as most do. An indication is made about the setting in the café with the leaves giving a shadow and hence telling us that the story was taking place on a patio or street of the café. An old man that…