Ernest Hemmingway Short Story Analysis

Ernest Hemingway loved to learn about Spain and talk to people about the culture. In Paris, he liked to drink and sit at cafes. In A Clean Well-Lighted Place, two waiters are sitting at their cafe talking and waiting to close up. While they wait, they discuss the old man sitting on the terrace, and why he wanted to commit suicide. As old deaf man is sitting on the terrace drinking spirits, it flashes to the servers of another. When the young waiter goes to the table to tell him he is tired and should go home ...