Hemingway's short story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place- presents a café in which two waiters converse about their sole patron late one evening as they await his departure and the end of their shift. ... These three characters represent Hemingway's perception of himself past, present and future as well as others who share a similar conscience with him. ... Even though the story takes place during or near wartime as indicated by a soldier passing by on the street, the young man is indifferent to it as it does not affect him directly. ... In this passage Hemingway himself may be ...

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