A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Storm" by Kate Chopin deal with the loss of innocence, loneliness, and sexual desires. The narrators are a part of different times and different societies, which shows how the language and actions differ in the characters. Through the author's use of dialogue, the reader discovers each situation that the characters in stories are presented with. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway is depicted as using old age and depression to get its views across. "The Storm" by Kate Chopin is much more expressive in its imagery of passion relating it to a storm. The main character in "A Clean, Well- Lighted Place", written by Ernest Hemingway is the old man. The old man, who remains nameless throughout the short story, comes to the cafe and stays late into the night, and sits "In the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light"(92). The old man is deaf and finds comfort in the "difference" he feels inside the quiet cafe. The old man struggles with old age and the feeling of nothingness, which is representative of the darkness outside of the cafe. The well-lit cafe represents order and cleanliness. The old man is around eighty years old, and d
Alcee also likes the idea, and after having been alone for a while, they give in to their desire for each other. Literature Reading and Writing the Human Experience. "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He speaks to him "speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. "The Storm" by Kate Chopin starts off at a local grocery store. The young waiter knows that the old man tried to commit suicide last week, but feels no regret for him. Although the only other two people in the cafe at the late hour are the two waiters, the old man finds it comfortable. Calixta's affair with Alcee is described almost as if it were done in innocence. For both the old man and the older waiter life held nothing. She is "sewing on a sewing machine"(701) and when she notices that a storm is coming, she brings in the laundry that she had hung out earlier; but she does not seem to be worried about her husband and son. Literature Reading and Writing the Human Experience. These two stories deal with rites of passage, epiphany and change, which are important to the characters in the stories.
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