The comparison of "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield and "A Clean, Well-Lighted
             The short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Katherine Mansfield is a story
             about an old man who is in a depression, and has attempted suicide in the past. The story
             takes place at night in a cafe. The cafe is a well lit, but the old man sat outside at the
             cafe's terrace where there was a tree that cast a shadow upon him. The analogy of the
             light and darkness has to deal with happiness and sadness. The light, of course, represents
             happiness, and the dark symbolizes sadness. There were two waiters in the cafe. One
             waiter had sympathy for the old gentleman, while the other saw him as a stumbling block,
             preventing him from being able to lock up the cafe and go home. The old man
             continuously requested to have his glass of brandy refilled. The anxious waited did as
             request, but he saw this as a very dreadful experience. Sine the old man was deaf, he
             could not hear the hateful remarks that the young waiter had to say about him. One of the
             young mans remarks to the sympathetic waiter was, "He's lonely. I'm not lonely. I have
             a wife waiting in bed for me." He also stated that he would never want to be that old.
             The older waiter then told him that he was just like the old man, grumpy and in a hurry to
             get nowhere. That night fear became stricken in the heart of the young waiter because he
             knew that one day he would have to face that age. He was also afraid because he was
             young, and already showing signs of old age. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is written in
             The short story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield about a woman, whose only
             revealed name is Miss Brill, views life much differently from most people. As the story is
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