Character Analysis of “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

but in reality he does not, he "wouldn’t want to be that old. The old man stays late into the night, and sits "In the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. He sees it and is fearful that he may soon feel it. The older waiter is enriched by his years to the point where he is aware enough to see that in a matter of time that he could be the old man.

The story presents itself in an interesting way with which to view life. " He acts as everything in his life is under control and said, "I have confidence. " He simply wants to avoid the reality of life. Unconsciously, he complains, “The light is very bright and pleasant but the bar is unpolished. The waiter desperately uses his relationship with his wife as his truth, or reason for living: "I have a wife waiting in bed for me. " He chose to see the darkness instead of the light; he chose to live inside of the nothingness surrounded by the artificial light, or artificial truth that he has created for himself. ” It seem that, the older waiter now is playing the role of the old man. People need to make their own choices for their life with nothing to believe but with a positive result for their choices. He sees young age; an hour is forever, a time in which to do a thousand different things, all of which is the living of life. The lack of life after death, the lack of a moral order governing the universe, the lack of trustworthy interpersonal relations, the lack of an ordering principle in the individual consciousness, the lack of the ability to work, and the lack, therefore, of even self-respect and dignity (Bennett).