A Clean Well Lighted Place written by Ernest Hemmingway takes place after 2am in a Spanish caf where the characters a young waiter and an older waiter work and a deaf man is a regular customer The title A Clean Well Lighted Place refers to the caf where the story takes place The night or early morning this story takes place the young waiter is in a rush to get home to his wife Although the caf is not closed yet the young waiter lies to the deaf man saying the caf is closed and forces the deaf m
The meaning of life is a topic that inspired a lot of writers Many have argued that Hemmingways A clean well lighted place deals with this very same issue The story itself talks about two waiters differing in age and their subject of speech an ealderly deaf man In this essay Ill try to explain what the caf means to the old man In most of Hemmingways literature a nihilistic point of view occurs there is no God no meaning to this world and man must consequently find something to distract himself