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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Like the old man who craves a well-lighted bar at which to drink, the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Like the old man who craves a well-lighted bar at which to drink, the older waiter of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway, desires to keep the care open, providing a light.  In fact, after the cafe closes, seeks another lighted place, for anywhere that is lighted is preferable to the darkness of aloneness and "nada."
Thus, the setting of Hemingway's story is essential to the theme of the nothingness (nada) of life where the lack...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," how is the setting related...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," how is the setting related to the theme?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:18:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[class-of-2008,
Hemingway's widely anthologized short story is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[class-of-2008,
Hemingway's widely anthologized short story is a celebrated story about contrasts: between youth and age, belief and doubt, light and darkness. To the younger waiter, the café is only a job; to the older waiter, it is a charitable institution for which he feels personal responsibility. Of course, he himself has need of it: it is his refuge from the night, from solitude, from a sense that the universe is empty and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:51:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was considered, the best of the stories...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was considered, the best of the stories in his collection, Winner Take Nothing in 1933.
Winner Take Nothing wasn't well received by the critics, in terms of subject matter, who called it bitter and depressing.  An interpretation of the significance of “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” was, at the time, agreed upon by critics as  “dumb ox” fiction. One of his contemporaries, Wyndham Lewis, in an essay...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:27:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" how can you reflect the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" how can you reflect the character in a critical analysis?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:22:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The tone of Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Ligthed Place" is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The tone of Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Ligthed Place" is completely dispassionate.  Using his journalistic objectivity  and minimalist style, Hemingway simply reports what the waiters do and say in staccato dialogue. Nevertheless, it is apparent that the "waiter who is in a hurry breaks the rules of orderliness and adds to the chaos when he speaks

with that ommission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:43:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The telling or narration of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" lets the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The telling or narration of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" lets the reader to understand the depth of what the characters are saying. The story is mostly dialogue, and a lot of nothing or nada.  "nada nada nada" Hemingway style is referred to as the understatement which presents a tale, stripped of it's emotion and reactions; as a result the reader is jolted to recognize the power of the situation. He does not overtly judge his characters; for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:05:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the tone for "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the tone for "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway? Please provide examples.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[As one grows old and death draws near, one becomes more and more...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As one grows old and death draws near, one becomes more and more painfully aware of the meaninglessness, the nothingness-nada-of life. Religion which is meant to be a source of strength and comfort proves ineffective in the present situation. This is the tragic situation of the old waiter and the old drunken customer in Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
Hemingway reveals the thoughts of the older waiter through an interior...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:49:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the attitudes of the old waiter in relation to those of the old...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the attitudes of the old waiter in relation to those of the old man.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:28:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[why does he understand so well the old man's need for a cafe?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[why does he understand so well the old man's need for a cafe?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:02:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The old man only says, "Nada," once, and he means it literally.  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The old man only says, "Nada," once, and he means it literally.  The rest of the "nadas" come from the narration, which seems to be filtered through the old waiter's perspective:

It was all nothing, and a man was nothing, too...Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it was nada y pues nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada nada be thy name thy kingdom nada they will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:53:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the word "nada" in Hemingways "A Clean,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the word "nada" in Hemingways "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:27:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[this week i have to study about tone ans style and theme  and examing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[this week i have to study about tone ans style and theme  and examing each story on  clean well lighted place.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:54:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," the fact that the man is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," the fact that the man is deaf indicates that he is even more isolated from people.  This deafness and age of the man may also indicate that he is losing some of his other senses as well.  So, in his approaching blindness he may seek more light, light that may deter the darkness of death.
In addition to these ideas, the deafness is, perhaps, symbolic of how the other waiter is unconcerned about...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:54:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the old man's being deaf symbolize?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does the old man's being deaf symbolize?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:45:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The older waiter, like the old man who drinks alone at the cafe until...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The older waiter, like the old man who drinks alone at the cafe until late into the night, suffers from a condition far more profound than physical insomnia. His is a condition of the spirit. He lives each day enduring an overwhelming sense of loneliness and isolation. He finds no meaning in his own life or in life itself. Like the old man with whom he identifies so strongly, the old waiter needs the light of the cafe to ward off the darkness...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:56:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What besides insomnia makes the older waiter reluctant to go to bed?...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What besides insomnia makes the older waiter reluctant to go to bed? Comment especially on his meditation with its nada refrain.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:55:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hemingway is often referred to as a minimalist; his understated manner...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hemingway is often referred to as a minimalist; his understated manner of expression in objective and terse prose characterizes his desire to describe without frills, and without the imposition of an attitude. His repetition of words and phrases establish order in a world of nothingness.  If a person exposes himself to the vicissitudes of life, Fate will overcome him; however, if he can find rules to live by, he will survive.
In "A Clean...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 23:18:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What repetitions of words or phrases seem particularly effective? Does...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What repetitions of words or phrases seem particularly effective? Does Hemingway seem to favor a simple or an erudite vocabulary?]]></description>
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