All people of this world are different in some way or another. This is a fact. No two people are alike, nor do any beings on this earth contain the same exact physical features, but in this, personality traits are shared. Many desire to succeed, to encounter love and emotion, and feed their cravings of hunger, sex, and dignity. That is why man is man. No matter how demeaning or wounded they may be, man craves to come out as the winner. In the A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, A Day’s Wait, and In Another Country, the author Ernest Hemingway illustrates his characters with troubles of mental and physical behaviors. In parallel, all these characters share one universal goal; it is to come out of their single situations with dignity and decency.
The clean and well-lighted café in the story, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, presented the old man with a place to go. Common to all beings, man likes to go out to a clean and well-lit place to share a drink with himself, maybe to soak away life’s unfairness or simply to enjoy his successes. The old man in this story showed dignity, “The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity.”(31) His deafness
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The major and Nicholas Adams seem to have a relationship that his clearly a man to boy rapport. ”(31) the old man was always invited in. It is obvious these men have wounds but hard to realize that their nature of man cannot separate the ease of awkwardness. In a A Day’s Wait, Schatz is a boy that is over worried about falling asleep and letting his sickness over take his body and lose his dignity in front of his father. The protection the boy expresses in the story makes him a man of self-respect and dignity. ”(34) The boy is in a state of mental disorder where as everything in the world means nothing to him and all he wants is to continue to live. “Why don’t you try to go to sleep? I’ll wake you up for the medicine. The major is a wounded man trying to save himself from the disorder he currently holds. The old man, Schatz the boy, and the major all were wounded men of difficulties life had threw at them but in the most simple to difficult situations, the men show pride. The degree of self-respect to others to prove to themselves and their peers that they are truly men, no fear of deafness, no fear of death and no fear of love could set these men into a rage. The deafness does not seem to bother the old man but more to let him enjoy what he does without anyone else bothering him. He has no regard for those who must work. ”(35) The boy is now indirectly telling his father he does not want him to be here with him at all. The boy thought that he had a wound that would lead to his death but still showed courage by telling his father to leave the room so the boy could await his death.
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