It seems as though the younger waiter doesn't understand why anyone would want to drink by themselves. He is tired and just wants to get home to his wife, who is in bed waiting for him. He doesn’t really care about what the old man is feeling, and exudes confidence, which could almost be mistaken as a form of arrogance. The older waiter in his compassion tries explaining the old man’s plight to no avail, for he can in someway relate. As the story finishes we realize, the older waiter is in need of the same thing, a well-lighted place in order to escape his own dark world.
A Quiet, Cup Full of Sorrows and Loneliness “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Ernest Hemingway is a story of a forlorn elderly man who drinks his life away. One night while he was having a few drinks at a quiet café, two waiters started trying to make sense of his life. The old man was a regular, and by this time the waiters had managed to learn some things about him. As the story starts to evolve, the author uses a good sense of dialogue between the two waiters to really look into their personalities. By doing so, Hemingway builds the characters, and uses irony to establish the story.
When he is fighting on the front all he wants to do is go home, but when he gets home, all he wants to do is go back to the fighting. Paul ponders, “I find I do not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world” (149). This shows the use of irony because he now thinks the war is his home and that’s where he wants to be. That’s all he knows is fighting. Finally, Paul’s death at the end of the book
Once married, he now sits alone drinking bourbon. This man has a substantial amount of money, but there is a rumor that he tried to kill himself. The second main character is the young waiter. He is portrayed as an impatient person trying to leave the café as quickly as possible. He has a wife waiting for him back at home.
The mood, however, is sadness, as the reader is left with an impression of a son who is desperately trying to reach out to his father and to show his love, but he is rejected at every turn. When he show the money he had to his father, this turned him angrier because the father said, why he didn´t tell him before, finishing the relationship. 2) How does Pritchett make us feel sympathy for the old man? (same way of answering) For the most part, the old man isn’t likeable. He’s portrayed as a grasping businessman who looks down on his son for choosing to work as a low-paid university lecturer.
The young waiter is in a hurry to go home to his wife and is repulsed by the old and meaningless life of the old man. The older waiter identifies with this old man in that he also feels the despair of nothingness in his own life. The fact that the café is well lit is a powerful symbol in the story. Darkness can be a symbol of fear, loneliness, despair, and emptiness, while the light brings comfort and companionship. The light in the café is man-made or artificial and can be turned off; giving us the sense that it can only be a temporary and incomplete relief from the emptiness of the dark.
Neuropathy prevented Ian seeing where his body was which is a petrifying feeling; literally Ian was “The Man who Lost His Body”. It took a year for Ian to stand up safely and six months to put on his sock, this sensory process was long and tedious. This documentary taught me how we are fortunate to have sensory abilities; most people take it for granted because it’s natural. It was unbelievable how Ian recovered from this illness. The doctors told him that he will be in the wheel chair for the rest of his life but he was determined to regain his strength and movement.
Compare and Contrast Essay By: Maisha Moon “War” By: Luigi Pirandello “Gentlemen, Your Verdict” By: Michael Bruce “War” By: Luigi Pirandello is all about an old man trying to explain to people how just because our men are going off to war it doesn’t mean that we should grieve them, he says we should celebrate that they are doing something for their Country’s and for themselves. “Gentlemen your verdict” By: Michael Bruce is a story about a man who is faced with a difficult decision. It seems that the two short stories couldn’t be any different; however they do have some similarities. The two stories in my mind could connect to each other, and both stories have a kind of “epiphany” moment where the protagonist has to come to terms with something difficult. Although I could only come up with a few similarities the list of differences are way larger.
In a passage from the short story written by Ernest Hemingway, a suicidal deaf gentleman is over-staying his welcome in a café in Spain. He was drinking alone in the booth with the shadows of the trees casted down on the table. The deaf man wanted another glass of brandy, and the waiter had questioned his sobriety. The young waiter took advantage of the fact he is indeed deaf, he had told him he wished he killed himself. The young waiter with a wife waiting at home, begins to taps his foot for the man to leave so he can close the shop for the night.
Another example of how Bruno was avoiding thinking about what was happening around him was when he said, “I expect we’ll have to wait here till it eases off and then I’ll get to go home” (Boyne, page 212). He was ignoring the reality, the facts, instead he is thinking ahead, about going home. This book has definitely showed me, we need to be more aware of the circumstances we are in. Innocence leads to tragedy. Before I read your book I often thought of the cruelty of the WWII and I could hardly imagined the world with people not protesting