Throughout the world about 2000 people kill themselves every day. In the U.S., there are over 80 deaths from suicide a day, and about 30,000 a year. In this short story “A Clean Well Lighted Place” the old man tries to kill himself but his niece lets him free. This story is in the tragic mode of literature.
This story fits into the tragic mode of literature because the old man tries to hang himself so he is feeling kind of tragic. Then he is at the bar and is feeling good which is the rise to power. Then he has to go home without a wife or anything which is a tragic fall. The death symbolism in this story is when the old man goes home and has nothing to look forward to.
Like the old man the older bartender has a rise to power. He is a happy person while he is at the cafe because he has the company of others.He doesn’t have a wife and he doesn’t really have anything to look forward to. His tragic fall is when he has to go home; he has nothing to go home to.
Hemingway's tragedy is really about the older men in the story who don't really have anything to do in life. They need a clean well-lighted place to brighten the path to the rest of their lives.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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