Please comment on the following quote from "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.""After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must...

This is the highly significant way in which this excellent
short story finishes. It is the older waiter who closes the story with this belief that
he is not able to fall asleep because of insomnia. This of course draws attention to the
important theme of loneliness and despair in this story. The tale presents us with
despair as a human condition, but then suggests that this despair must be confronted in
a state of isolation. The older waiter is clearly something of a parallel character
compared to the old, drunk man, as he, too, likes to sit in cafes late at night, and so
we can infer that he suffers from the same condition of loneliness. This last sentence
represents his own self-deception, as he treats his sleeplessness as a result of
insomnia rather than despair and loneliness, and implicitly reaches out for human
companionship with the final sentence "Many must have it." He is not able to accept the
true reason for his sleeplessness and finds comfort in his belief that others suffer
from the same symptoms and are lonely as well.  It is likewise important to note that
the older waiter goes "without leaving further," as if to stop himself going down any
avenues of thought that would force him to acknowledge the despair and loneliness that
he manages to conceal from himself.