What Comes with Old Age?

What Comes with Age What comes to mind when you return of living? Do you view aliveness with an ever go lucky standstill and ar you adroit and content? Are you an optimist? Or do you think aliveness is a means to and end with cipher to look prior to but depression and sorrow. In Earnest Hemingways story A Clean Well-Lighted Place Hemmingway makes the point that when you get senior in that location is nothing but desperation and sorrow to live for. He does this by awardcasing the story between a new(a)er and an sure-enough(a)er waiter work late at night in a well-lit cafe where the solely customer in the cafe is a very elder indifferent(p) human beings getting drunk by himself.The story illustrates through impersonation and verbal irony what it means to deal with the harsh reality that everything we are and everything we do is empty. Hemmingway presents two word forms of characters, those that are unaware of the emptiness of life and those that are familiar with it. He does this by focusing on three important characters throughout the short story an nonagenarian man, a young waiter, and an sometime(a) waiter where each has a subtly different outlook on life. At the beginning of the story we meet the old man who is seance at a bar drinking a brandy just observation the branches of a tree outside.The old man is l anely and drinks by himself. He drowns his sorrows in inebriant. The old man attempts to commit suicide because he is in despair. He tried to commit suicide by hanging himself with a rope but his niece who takes care of him cuts him down. He is in despair and feels unwanted because he is old. His old age shows physical imperfections on his body such as his hard of hearing. He has no unmatched to go photographic plate to, and finds comfort drinking in lit places, then home by himself. He is very l angiotensin-converting enzymely because his wife died and he has no one to go home to and talk to about his problems or just to com e about him company.The old man is also in a good pecuniary position, but regardless of money, he has no will to keep on living. The old mans desensitiseness signifies a physical and mental isolation from the rest of the world. The younger waiter only cares about passing home to his wife and going to bed so he idler go to sleep. He seems to think his time is more valuable than the old mans which is ignorant to think since whos time is really better than soulfulness elses? In the story the two waiters mention that the old man is in despair. When asked what the old man was in despair about the young waiter replies Nothing, because He has plenty of money. This is a typical ignorant thought shared by youth who believe that money somehow provides contentment thus a meaningful life. The younger waiter does not show any sympathy to the old man or try to agnise his feelings. The younger waiter is very insensitive and only thinks about himself. His placement towards older people is very harsh and he never gelt to think that one day he to might be old and lonely. The older waiter works at the cafe along with the younger waiter but seems to be more aware of the old deaf mans feelings.He doesnt have anyone to go home to at the end of the night and he doesnt mind working at all hours of the night. The older waiter identifies with the old man because he himself has nowhere to go after work. The older waiter himself cannot find a plumb well-lighted place of his own to pass the night. The older waiter is offend by how the young waiter treats the man when he decides to refuse component the man another drink. This is demonstrated when the older waiter says Why didnt you let him stay and drink? The older waiter has a practical(prenominal) understanding of the significance of nada, in this world and it actually keeps him up at night. He comes to the realization that life is emptiness, that a mans life means nothing and that his existence signifies nothing to himsel f, nothing to others and nothing to the universe. sensation of the close important topics of this story has to do with loneliness. The older waiter and the old man are very lonely. They both would like to stay at the cafe to escape from reality. Whereas the younger waiter is in a plenty to get home because his life and reality isnt make full with loneliness.He has a wife to go home to and he has youth, confidence and a job. The older waiter is very much like the old man object he has a job. The old man feels like he has nothing to live for other than getting drunk, however, life is not found in a bottle of alcohol. Life is found in experiences and relationship and alcohol hinders these experiences and relationships. This story also talks about other topics including death, futility, and meaninglessness. Hemingway shows these topics throughout most of the words and actions of the older waiter.Life is inherently meaningless and leads inevitably to death, and the older one gets, t he clearer these truths become and the less able one is to impose any kind of order on ones existence or notice any kind of positivity in ones outlook. In Ernest Hemmingways A Clean Well-Lighted Place one learns that life seems to get worse with age. Young people seem to be happy and content and think that they themselves will never grow old. The older one gets the closer the realization is that life is not worth living since it is filled with emptiness and despair.