Hemmingway Paper.
In the story “ A Clean well Lighted Place”, there are three characters. The Old man, Young waiter, and the Old waiter. The old man is the main character but the other two characters have a big part in it. If you would read this story, you will find it very interesting how the writer, Hemmingway, will introduce all the characters that I am about to talk about.
The Old Man is a very interesting man. In my prespective the old man is lonely, without anyone to talk to and to be with when he is trouble. In the story it explains a lot about the old man, but with what hemming way is trying to get through is the old man is him. The old man went to a bar almost every night. Sometimes he would get so drunk that he would not know when the bartender would be poring his drink. Or he would be so drunk that he wouldn't be able to pay his own bill.
The next person I want to talk about is the Old waiter. The old waiter is a lot like the old man. He is also lonely, likes the morning, and a lot more reasons that they are a lot alike. Like you see they get each other. In my opinion the old waiter works at a bar because it closes in the morning. In the story it says “ The old waiter fell a sleep at the crack of dawn”. That told me that he only sleeps in when there is light, just like the old man as well. So the old waiter and the old man have a lot in common like I said before. So what I what I see is Hemmingway trying to put himself in this two very well described characters.
The other person I was going to talk to you about is the Young Waiter. This man is young of course. He has a wife, that he can’t get really get to at night because he works at the bar. So obviously he is really rude to the old man when he didn’t want to stay any longer in the bar waiter for some old man that is so drunk that he can’t even pay for his own bill. So what the young waiter did just so that he could go home he kicked the old man out of the bar. And then that’s when the old waiter stepped in and said that was a really wrong thing to do. But still after that the young waiter still didn’t lean his lesson. He was still rude to the old man after that. So you see the old waiter was not the best person to be working at a bar that stays open that that late.
So as you can see, the old man did drink a lot. He was lonely and so was the old waiter. But because the young waiter knew that he had a woman waiting for him at home he was selfish and didn’t think about anyone else but himself. But the other thing that I’m trying to point out is that the old man is a part of Hemmingway, and what he was trying to point out is loneliness can lead to some bad things. The old man and the old waiter knew what this felt like, but the young waiter obviously didn’t. so what I think Hemmingway was trying to say is that sometimes young people don’t know what they really have, until you are grown up and you what you it is that you actually have.
Good Job Daniela. It think you've done a good job! Keep it up.
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