Blog #4 assignment

Writing is a creative outlet for authors to express their feelings, emotions and experiences. Therefore, it is often extremely important to have some knowledge of the author’s life experiences and background to help understand his or her work. In his story, “A clean Well - light place“, Hemingway’s expressed his own feelings and pain of loneliness as an old man. An old man in the story was a reflection of Hemmingway’s own life, full of loneliness and no reason to live.
Thus, the setting of Hemingway's story is essential to the theme of the nothingness (nada) of life where the lack of spiritual faith leaves an empty promise. One of the most touching aspects of this story is when the older waiter expresses solidarity with the old man. While the young waiter is young and confident, the older waiter and the old man seem overwhelmingly lonely and tired out by life. The young waiter portrays society that does not care about old people. Many of the old people live alone without any friends, family, or caretakers. I think the reason for this work was Hemingway’s own depression and loneliness at that age.
Just like the old man who craves a well-lit bar to go to for a drink, the older waiter of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway, desires to keep the care open, providing a light. In fact, after the cafe closes, the old man seeks another lighted place because for him any lighted place is preferable to the darkness of aloneness and "nada”. Hemingway was the one feeling trapped in search of the light. Unfortunately, in real life he could not handle the pressure of the mental and physical issues he had and shot himself in 1961.