一个干净明亮的地方人物分析

1、PLOT& ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERSRendered almost completely in dialogue, the main action of “A Clean, Wei卜Lighted Place” is set in a small cafe in Spain, as two waiters prepare to close the establishment for the night. The place is empty except for a regular customer, a deaf old man drinking alon

2、e at one of the tables.Realizing that the old man is drunk, one of the waiters informs the other that the customer attempted suicide the week before. After the waiters watch a young man and woman pass on the street, the young waiter serves the old customer another brandy and voices his impatience to

3、 the old waiter, complaining that the old man is keeping him from his warm bed and the comfort of his wife.-They discuss the old man's suicide attempt and his possible reasons for such a desperate act. When the old man gestures for another brandy, the young waiter tells him that it is closing ti

4、me. After the old man pays his bill and leaves, the old waiter chides the young waiter for his lack of patience and empathy for the old man. He compares himself to the man, saying he understands the need for a clean, well-lighted place to be at night. After the cafe closes, the old waiter stops at a

5、 bar for a drink before he goes home, dreading his return to an empty room.Old manThe old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the differenee."Last week he tried to commit suicide/1 one waiter said.''Why?""He was in despair."

6、"How did he do it?""He hung himself with a rope." "Who cut him down?” "His niece.""Why did he do it?H"For his soul.*'"How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty.""He must be eighty years old.""He stays up becau

7、se he likes it.""He's lonely.not Ionely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me." "He had a wife once too."The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass.The waiter poured on into the glass so that the brandy slopped over and ran down the stem into th

8、e top saucer of the pile."Thank you," the old man said."This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now, drunk/7The old man stood up, slowly counted the saucers, took a leather coin purse from his pocket and paid for the drinks, leaving half a peseta tip.The waiter watched

9、 him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity.Young waiterHe put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy."I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o'clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?""He's Ionely.not Ionely

10、. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.""I would n't want to be that old. An old man is a n a sty thing.”Hl don't want to look at him. I wish he would go home. He has no regard for those who must work.""Finished," he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid

11、people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners"No more tonight. Close now.”"He was in despair.""What about?"''Nothing.""How do you know it was nothing?""He has plenty of money." "You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy

12、a bottle and drink at home." "It's not the same." "You have everything 丨 have."“No. I have n ever had con fide nee and I'm not you ng.”"Come on. Stop talking nonsense and lock up.""Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.'1"You do not un

13、derstand. This is a clean and pleasa nt cafe .It is well lighted The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves."Middle-aged waiter"He stays up because he likes it.""He's lonely.not lonely.丨 have a wife waiting in bed for me.""He had a wife on

14、ce too.""You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy a bottle and drink at home.""It's not the same.""No, it is not," agreed the waiter with a wife. He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a hurry."You have youth, con fide nee, and a job," the

15、older waiter said."You have everyth!ng.”"And what do you lack?""Everything but work.""Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself.It is the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and li

16、ght. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well.He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe

17、was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further; he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After allz he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.Through the analysis above, it is known that Hemingway took the two waiters as known information, and the old man as unknown information. There was a sharp contrast between the youth and oldness, between the old and young waiters. In fact, the old man, the middle aged waiter and the young waiter represent the youth, the middle age and the Id age