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Hey /lit/
Been reading a collection of short stories written by Hemingway and kind of doing informal essays in my head. I'm stuck on the point of his story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". Is it really just about the fact life means nothing? Seems kinda edgy and a bit of a cop-out for Hemingway.
White Elephants had so many layers and this story just seems to be about the fact the younger waiter is ignorant because he's young, and the older waiter is still figuring out what the old man already knows, which I think is something about nihilism. Is the obvious track wrong here?
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>>9179548
How is that edgy?
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>>9179560
It just seems, to me, to be really flat compared to his other work. Normally I'm able to pick out in one story many different themes, so I'm wondering if I'm just being dim or if Lighted is really just about "nothing".
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>>9179548
It is about loneliness and old age.
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