Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept Of Nada
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In Ernest Hemingway's short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”,
the concept of nada is the central and most important theme. As described
by Carlos Baker, Nada is “a Something called Nothing which is so huge,
terrible, overbearing, inevitable, and omnipresent that, once experienced,
it can ....
Middle of paper
.... 256). However, this cafe
must close at some time or another thus proving that the cafe isn't enough
to combat the nada. It is not even a place but an artificial, man-made
building that tries to fight against this real idea of nada. If one has
the internal qualities, cleanliness and inner vision, they can cope with
the nothingness even outside of the cafe. The old waiter is a prime example.
At times the old man lacks these qualities thus not being able to cope
with the darkness. On the o ....
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