“A Clean Well-lighted Place” In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean Well-lighted Place” (reprinted in R.S. Gwynn, Fiction 2nd ed. [New York: Longman, 1998] 104), images of light are contrasted with images of darkness and shadow to symbolize the contrasting ideas of faith and doubt. These images of opposites are the theme of the story, and throughout the stories length they reinforce its meaning. Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean Well-lighted Place” is a story based around a …showed first 75 words of 912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 912 total…the darkness and loneliness that fill their lives. The older waiter and the old deaf man not only have the need for “a clean well-lighted place” but they share the same lonely “insomnia…Many must have it”(108), that unites them in this café. It can be inferred that although they are alone in their own version of the darkness, they are part of the many gathering in the night in search of something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**