A_Clean,_Well-Lighted_Place

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemmingway uses several types of styles of writing in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. He created a short story, using only the minimum building blocks necessary to accomplish the job of telling a story. He uses simple diction, usually consisting of Anglo-Saxon, as opposed to the Latin origin. His sentence structure consists of simple sentences with no metaphors and similes. Hemmingway also is very repetitive about the events that take place through out this selection. In this short story, Hemmingway is far from being complex. His story it straight to the point. The three characters do not even have names, yet the reader is very clear to the emotion of each character. All that happens is that the two waiters talk, the old man drinks, and then they all go home. Each line out of the entire selection is to the point, letting the reader be very aware of who is speaking with out really being told. When the young waiter said, I wouldn’t want to be an old man. An old man is a nasty thing, it is quite clear he is the one speaking. Throughout the story, very, hemmingway, reader, out, old, clear, clean, well-lighted, simple, place, young, writing, types, short, said, point, nada, man, latin, each, characters, bartender, words, unique, throughout, thing, styles, style, speaking, several, selection, repetition, repeats, one