Earnest Hemingway

Title: Earnest Hemingway
Category: Literature / English | Words: 589 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

Earnest Hemingway

“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway captures the emotions of alienation and loneliness. Hemingway uses his three characters to show different aspects of these emotions. The dialogue between the two waiters shows how the older waiter is alone and alienated. Finally, the author uses the word “nada” to emphasize the feeling of nothing, alienation, and loneliness. Through the characters’ views, the feelings of alienation and loneliness are shown. The three characters, a deaf old …showed first 75 words of 589 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 589 total…Feeling isolated and alone are strong feelings that can hurt. Not knowing how other people feel, the same way the younger waiter did not understand the older waiter or the deaf man, shows the lack of knowledge younger people have on older people. These older people are the ones who have lived their lives and know what lies ahead for the younger people. Hemingway does an excellent job of showing these feelings through his story.

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