Since the first publications of literature hundreds of years ago people have been enthusiastically critiquing and summarizing literary works. These people try to reflect what message, theme, and point of views the author is trying to convey. Many stories are great tools to learn from. One story that is great to analyze is Hemmingway's, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." One aspect that can be questioned is whether this story has a religious connection or whether it is just a story with little meaning.
             The main plot of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is how an old man is suffering from the emotional consequences of the pain of old age. Hemingway contrasts light and dark to show the difference between this man and the young people around him. The old man is deaf and Hemingway cleverly uses this deafness an image of the old mans separation from the rest of the world. Hemingway concretes this image by having the workers discuss how the old man attempted to take his own life. Near the end of the story with this line:
             "The old man counted the saucers took a leather coin purse from his pocket and paid for the drinks, leaving half a peseta tip. The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity."1
             The author shows us the desperate emptiness of the old mans life near finished without the success of its labor. The aggravation of the old man's restless mind that cannot find peace is a burden that is unlimited. Throughout the story images of desperation show the
             old man's existence at a position when he has realized the pointlessness of life and finds himself the lonely object of contempt.
             Instantly after one has read this story one can see the religious relations from the beginning of the story. The most obvious image used by Hemingway in this story is that of the contrast between light and dark. "The tables were empty except where the old man sat in the shadow o...