Hemmingway Character Review
Two men are sitting in a corner of a café talking and watching an old man drink at the counter. The café is a nice small place in a small town. The café is clean and well lighted and it sits in the shadows of the leaves of the trees. The two men sit and talk when the man asks for another drink. They know he has drunken too much. The two men start talking again about each other this time. As they talk they find out that they are more different then they realize. Each lacks what the other has in "A Well Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemmingway. Each waiter has the same job, but everything else is different.
The older waiter is a very relaxed man who is patient and understands the world around him. He lives alone and cares about others more than himself. This is shown when the he doesn't mind staying in the café late and stays with the old man because he understands him. He has no one to go home to, so he is very lonely and doesn't mind staying because he has company. This state of loneliness really separates him from others because most people have friends and family to go home to or to see. When the older waiter goes home; he has no one.
While the older waiter is wiser and more experience with life the younger waiter thinks that money is happiness and that he is the most important man. He believes that he shouldn't have his time wasted by sitting in the café watching the old man drink. He wonders why the old man drinks and isn't happy because he has a lot of money. The fact that he believes that money is happiness and how everything is about him makes a selfish and stubborn man.
All and all the waiters are very different. They have almost everything in their life different. Does this affect their relationship? How is their view of life different? They look at everything different and have a different felling about many things thus making them look downward upon each other not understanding each other.
