When our lives begin, we are innocent and life is beautiful, but as we grow older and time slowly and quickly passes we discover that not everything about life is quite so pleasing. Along with the joys and happiness we experience there is also pain, sadness and loneliness. Hemingway\\\'s \\\"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,\\\" and Eliot\\\'s \\\"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\\\" both tell us about older men who are experiencing these dreadful emotions.
In Hemingway\\\'s short story there are three characters, two waiters and their customer. Of these three, two are older men who are experiencing extreme loneliness. The customer sits alone drinking his glasses of brandy slowly, and very carefully, peacefully becoming drunk. While he is meticulously drinking his alcohol, the two waiters talk about him. They discuss his suicide attempt of the week past. The younger waiter doesn\\\'t seem to understand why a man with money would try to end his life. Although the older waiter......
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