A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Intro and Thesis:
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," is a dreary story of irony. An old, deaf man simply would like to stay a while longer at a café, but because of one impatient waiter, the old man's life is at stake whether or not the hurried waiter realizes it.
I.
Explain the irony of the old, deaf man and the older waiter. Old, deaf man wants to stay and drink, because he has nothing going on in his life and nothing on his mind. Older waiter tells hurried waiter about how the old, deaf man tried committing suicide because there is nothing, but the younger waiter never takes it into consideration that maybe the extra hour will keep the old, deaf man from trying to end his life again.
Also, the older waiter understands the old, deaf man and his wanting to stay late because he too has nothing of importance going on in his life.
II.
The importance of the title is that a clean, well-lighted place is all that is needed for the old, deaf man and the older waiter to have something on their minds instead of nothing.
III.
Both the old, deaf man and the older waiter stay up late into the wee hours of the night and all that is open after the café closes is small grocery stores, called bodegas, which sometimes are combined with wine shops. The café is the only place that has the nice, comfortable atmosphere that the old, deaf man and the older waiter enjoy.
In A Clean Well-Lighted Place, two
waiters are sitting at their caf talking and waiting to close up.
While they are waiting they are discussing the old man sitting out on
the terrace, and why he would have wanted to commit suicide. As old
deaf man is sitting out on the terrace drinking brandies, he flashes to
the waiters for another. When the young waiter goes over to the table
to tell him he^s had enough and must go...
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