“A Clean, Well Lighted Place” The young waiter plays Devil's Advocate to supply an alternate theme for the old waiter to argue against “ there are bodegas, open all night long”(145) '.the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he could feel the difference'(143)
“ the old man sitting in the shadow”(143) “ the old man sat in the shadow of the leaves”(143) “A Clean, Well Lighted Place” Repetition of the key theme is contrasted with Hemingway's minimalism The old man is alone in the world the “old man.sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made”(143) Often unclear who is even speaking, leaving the reader to decide on their own(Samuelson 5) Third person narrative that stick only to readily discernible facts Forces or allows the reader to apply judgment of events and characters “A Clean, Well Lighted Place” Terse account of an old man and two waiters at a cafe The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.(192) - Ernest Hemingway The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
Hemingway's Iceberg Theory If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The Iceberg Theory: How Ernest Hemingway's Principle of Omission is Reflected in his Literary Works
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