Authors use many tactics to reveal a character's personality. In the short story, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Hemingway exposes the attributes of his characters through narration and dialogue. The older waiter's characteristics are exhibited through the waiters' conversations and the observations the narrator makes. The author cleverly associates the older waiter with the old man. This connection gives the audience a clear understanding of the loneliness and old age the waiter faces.         The older waiter …showed first 75 words of 524 total…

…showed last 75 words of 524 total…Hemingway 162). This image reminds the reader of the old man sitting silently alone at the cafe. Again the audience sees the old man's loneliness illustrated in the older waiter.         The connection attaching the old man to the older waiter enabled the reader to recognize the waiter's loneliness and broken spirit. The conversations between the two waiters also discloses many of the older waiters' temperaments. Hemingway reveals his character through speech and statements by the narrator.