One of Ernest Hemingway's most consistent, defining themes is humanity's struggle with darkness; primarily the darkness that is seated in the depths of our souls, rather than the darkness in the world around us. ... Hemingway's characters while remaining rather nondescript, are most certainly not flat, and are decidedly human and believable. ... The last important character is the older waiter, and he is Hemingway's mouthpiece. He is the character that Hemingway uses to reveal his beliefs on the nature of the world, and it may be reasonably assumed that the man may in fa...

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A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway The short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- by Ernest Hemingway focuses on the existential crisis, the search for meaning that faces human beings. ... Hemingway was married four times and won the Nobel Prize for literature. ... Hemingway's theory proposes that life is naturally meaningless. ... Hemingway describes this in a number of different ways. ... Hemingway's` style is very short and to the point. ...

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Ernest Hemingway: 1950 - Death Ernest Hemingway was a famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. ... Hemingway, the fall: 1946-1961 CNN.Com: 2000. ... Earnest Hemingway. ... Timeless Hemingway: 1998-2002. Sec.1. 11/02 The Hemingway Resource Center, Ernest Hemingway Biography > the Last Days: 1996-2002 Pg. 7. 11/02....

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The Ululation of Age Hemingway was once quoted as saying "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."" ... "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place- written by Ernest Hemingway. ... In Hemingway's story the old man is a problem to the younger waiter who says: "He should have killed himself last week."" (150) and: "I don't want to look at him. ... The line, "a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity."" (151) is climatic to Hemingway's expression of the old man. ...

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A Rose For Emily is a story of a southern women and the secret she has kept for 40 years. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place takes place in a café in a Spanish country. There are three characters in this story, two which are waiters, and an old drunk man. This story is very mysterious just as A Rose for ...

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