Wednesday, August 21, 2013

What are several word phrases that Ernest Hemingway repeats in "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

In Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean,Well-Lighted Place," there
are several phrases that are repeated with certain
variations:


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The guard will get
him


to kill himself


it is
necessary that the place be clean


A clean well-lighted
place


The light is very bright and
pleasant


I wish he would go
home


in nada as it is in
nada



The story’s simplicity
and thematic austerity has many critics ridiculing Hemingway while his admirers contend
that ‘‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’’ is Hemingway at his most pure
as



he captures
in both form and content an irreducible and tragic essence of
life. 



The older waiter
sympathies that lie with the old man point to the existential condition of man whose
life is simplified to "nada" and he must struggle to find some light in the darkness of
nothingness.  He does this by finding a place that is clean and well-lighted where he
can be with others in and where he can display good form and conduct.  The old man
displays good conduct as he sits in the cafe and "drinks without
spilling."

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