A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that exemplifies his minimalist style and explores themes of loneliness, meaning, and existential despair in a late-night café setting.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place canonical | 3 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Ernest Hemingway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionType | short story collection ⓘ |
| contains |
"nada" refrain
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parody of the Lord's Prayer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublicationYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Scribner's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
modernist fiction
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short fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
old man is deaf
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old man is wealthy ⓘ older waiter is empathetic ⓘ older waiter is insomniac ⓘ younger waiter is impatient ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered one of Hemingway's finest short stories
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widely anthologized ⓘ |
| hasEvent | old man's suicide attempt ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | existentialist literary criticism ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | clean well-lighted café as sanctuary ⓘ |
| includedIn | Winner Take Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
old deaf man
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older waiter ⓘ younger waiter ⓘ |
| motif |
café as refuge
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light and darkness ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | third-person narration ⓘ |
| publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Spanish café ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimeOfDay | late night ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
American literature courses
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modernist literature courses ⓘ |
| style |
iceberg theory
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minimalist prose ⓘ |
| theme |
aging
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existential despair ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ nothingness ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
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