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 was not the wound that this man would let him fail in life, but with this gift, he would succeed. The deafness does not seem to bother the old man but more to let him enjoy what he does without anyone else bothering him. The old man was a regular in the café, "The two waiters inside the café knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client..."(29), indicating that even with his deafness and annoyance to one of the waiters, "I wish he would go home. He has no regard for those who must work."(31) the old man was always invited in. The old man likes the café, not for it's brandy but for the light, the people and th
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