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A Clean Well Lighted Place
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A Clean Well Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway is respected as a phenomenal writer. While I enjoyed A Clean Well-Lighted Place, I though it was a simple story. I made the mistake at taking it at face value. After all, I thought, short stories are just simple little tales about nothing, right? I was wrong. This short story told a deeper story. The deeper story didn't really have a moral or any highly symbolic points. It didn't even require very deep analysis. The deeper story just gave me a reason to be empathetic at times when it seems the least necessary. There are only three main characters in A Clean Well-Lighted Place. The old waiter, the young waiter and the old, blind patron. The patron is totally content sitting in the clean well-lighted place and drinking. He is simply being. By 'being', I mean that the patron is just being alive and...
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