The story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Earnest Hemingway, in my opinion, is a story about a mans loneliness. The story starts out in an empty café, very late at night. Even the setting symbolizes gloominess. There are two waiters one old, one young. The older waiter is lonly, and the young waiter has a wife. The waiters don't treat the old deaf man, who is a very good costumer, as they treat all the rest of the costumers.
Throughout the story it is mentioned a few times about the shadows of the leaves. What Hemingway is trying to illustrate is the loniness and death. When it is Autumn, it is close to winter and all the surroundings are changing. The leaves are all falling off the trees, it is becoming cold and dark. Fewer days with sunlight and longer nights. The dark, cold winter represents death and loniness. This is what the author is continuously trying to show us by telling us the old man is in the shadow of the leaves.......
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