A men with nada
To me, since I am majoring in psychology, I would like to understand and analysis people*s thinking and feelings. It is a difficult knowledge to know what people and why they think since they are from different ages, races and countries. Because Ernest Hemingway, " A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is dealt with the concept with a young and an old waiter, I like it when they have the conversation about the deaf man in the caf*. Two main characters, a waiter with a wife and an older waiter, have a discussion about the concept of loneliness. And a young waiter, who believes himself both immortal and never alone, portrays the optimistic role of youthful human nature; on the other hand, an older waiter is at the opposite pole, with a belief in an inevitable mortality that leads him to have a terrible feeling of loneliness and despair. Thus because it is associated with psychology, I derive pleasure from this story. It shows the different point of view of an hour between youth and old, the loneliness of being old and nothingness of man's inevitable fate. First of all, I can see the different point of view of an hour between the young waiter and the old waiter. In the story, the young waiter, who impatiently waits for th
e deaf man to leave, busily sets out to close the caf*. The older waiter trifles upset at the younger one for expelling the man so early. And asks him what the difference another hour would make and believes that an hour is the same, regardless of age. In youth, an hour is an eternity, a time in which to do a thousand different things, namely all equating to the living of life. In old age, an hour is also an eternity which is either used to curse the youth for seemingly squandering their time or to curse the gods for prolonging the "agony" of life. Time is the most precious of all commodities. Actually, I find that I have the same thought with the young waiter of an hour. For example, sometimes when I go to evening class, I always pray for the teacher who can let us go an hour earlier. Actually, that hour is just for me to have an hour extra sleep only, just as same as the young waiter. Therefore, I like Hemingway*s story that can use peculiar perspective to show the different point of views of "time" in both youth and old. At last, it is amiable because Hemingway tries to impress upon the reader that man's inevitable fate is to enter into nothingness from nothingness, for life is nothing. In the bar, the older waiter continues the conversation within his mind, asking himself what bothered him, what fear accosted his mind. It was not a fear, he realized with sadness, but a realization that everything was nothing. Life was nothing and a man was barely e
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Approximate Word count = 998
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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