This short story takes place in a café. It is a night and the café is empty, except an old, deaf man and two waiters, talking about him. The young waiter wants him to leave the café so he could go home, but the old one is more understanding. When the old man „asks“ for another brandy, the young says that they are closing. When he is gone, the waiters resume their discussion. The young wants to hurry home to his wife, whereas the old waiter is one „of those who like to stay late in the café“. The old waiter continues thinking to himself about how important it is for a café to be clean and well lit.
Form, use of language, narrative technique
This story is written in objective point of view, using a short, active declarative sentences, with few adverbs or adjectives. Which is typical for Hemingway’s economic prose. He uses …show more content…
It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pue snada y nada y pues y nada.“
It is kind of prayer filled with the word ‚nada‘, which is a Spanish word and means in English ‚nothing‘. So from that we can see that nothingness is everywhere, even religion, to which many people turn to find meaning and purpose, is also just nothingness. The prayer doesn’t make sense because of the word ‚nada‘.
First we meet the word ‚nothing‘ in the beginning when one waiter is asking the other one, why the old, deaf man wanted to commit suicide, the other one says „He was in despair“ „What about?“ „Nothing“. So this ‚nothing‘ is also connected to this quotation. He was in despair of ‚the nothingness‘. But not everyone is aware of the nothingness. For example, the young waiter, his life has a purpose, meaning, he is rushing to his wife, for him an hour is shorter than for the old waiter and he is unaware of any reason why he should
Form, use of language, narrative technique
This story is written in objective point of view, using a short, active declarative sentences, with few adverbs or adjectives. Which is typical for Hemingway’s economic prose. He uses …show more content…
It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pue snada y nada y pues y nada.“
It is kind of prayer filled with the word ‚nada‘, which is a Spanish word and means in English ‚nothing‘. So from that we can see that nothingness is everywhere, even religion, to which many people turn to find meaning and purpose, is also just nothingness. The prayer doesn’t make sense because of the word ‚nada‘.
First we meet the word ‚nothing‘ in the beginning when one waiter is asking the other one, why the old, deaf man wanted to commit suicide, the other one says „He was in despair“ „What about?“ „Nothing“. So this ‚nothing‘ is also connected to this quotation. He was in despair of ‚the nothingness‘. But not everyone is aware of the nothingness. For example, the young waiter, his life has a purpose, meaning, he is rushing to his wife, for him an hour is shorter than for the old waiter and he is unaware of any reason why he should