Author's Note: This is a short response about the story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by: Ernest Hemingway. I am comparing the two waiters from the story and explaining what the café represents.
In the short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, by: Ernest Hemingway there are two waiters at a café that is open until 3 in the morning. There is a younger waiter who wants to get home as early as possible because he complains that his wife is waiting in bed for him and he states that 3 AM is a terrible hour to go to sleep. The older waiter understands what the old man at the café is thinking. He knows what it is like to want to stay up all night at a clean well-lighted place. The old man doesn't want to be alone in the dark, he wants to have people around him and feel secure.
In this story I think that the young waiter symbolizes society now, and the old man and old waiter symbolize society as it should or used to be. Now society rushes through life always trying to get onto the next thing in their life, but society should just wait and take a moment to observe the beauty of what's around them. The café symbolizes everything wonderful about the world, or the things that society doesn't stop and think about. The young waiter wants to leave and get on with his life, while the older waiter understands that the old man wants to stay late at the café and adore the beauty, while staying out of the dark.
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