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Submitted by agnieszkaost on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Struggle
Struggle
If we are young and healthy, it seems that being young is the best part of our lifetime journey; we feel invincible, confident and that we have the world in our hands, we have goals and that we are capable of anything. On the other hand, when we look at the older people, we can see that most of them actually are struggling, they are not confident as they used too, don't have as many goals and they are limited of doing more in their lives often because of a weak health. The story "A clean, well-lighted place" by Ernest Hemingway is a great story showing the difference between young and old people. However, Hemingway did a terrific job showing us in the story the struggle of the elderly people whose lives are near end.
"It was late and every one had left café except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled
" (158). From very beginning we can sense the struggle of the old man with the loneliness. The café seems to be for him a place where he actually does not feel lonely, although he is sitting by himself. On the other hand, the young waiter cannot understand the old man's loneliness and how that's feels, he said, "He's lonely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me" (160). The young waiter even says that, " A wife would be no good to him" (160). The young waiter never had experienced the loneliness, and he might be thinking that he never will be lonely, when actually it is a possibility.
Also at the beginning of the story, we find out that the old man tried to commit suicide. When the younger asked the older waiter why he tried to commit suicide the older waiter responded that the old man was in despair of nothing. The younger waiter did not understand why the old man would commit suicide when, "he has plenty of the money" (158). Here, we find misunderstanding of the elderly generation; some of...
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