Hemingway's classic "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" is designed to specially show the unique and important dichotomy between the two waiters of the clean, well-lighted café. Juxtaposition, which was used to create this design: "is the order of events, simply what is put next to what in the arrangement of a story" (Scholes 15) as defined in the anthology Elements of Literature. In this case, the order of events can be seen as the dialogue between the waiter that is eager to leave, and the older one, who insists on keeping the café open until closing hour. These two waiters have very different perspectives on life, which is how the dichotomy is explained.
             Not too long into the conversation between the two waiters, it is already clear that the younger one is seen more as the shallow and rude type, and that the older one is more caring for the customer staying late because he can relate to his situation. A very obvious way to see that the younger one couldn't have cared less, is when he selfishly states that for the sole reason of wanting to go home, the elderly men drinking at the café should have succeeded in his suicidal attempt: "He'll stay all night ... I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week" (Hemingway 163). With the help of juxtaposition, we see an evident difference between the two, the way the older waiter doesn't comment even when his fellow worker tells the deaf customer to kill himself, to his face. This subtly implies that he, the older waiter, was thinking about what his co-worker had just said. Not long after, when the younger waiter was still complaining that the old deaf man should go home because then he could finally go home to his wife, there is a short yet meaningful response to this by the older worker, which shows how he understands the customer: "He stays up because he likes it... He had a wife once too&...