A well lighted place
(Essay)
Did Hemingway know what he was writing about when he wrote a well lit place? Did he ever even imagine that he was going to become in the future? From even though he might not of done it consciously he probably did it subconsciously.

Although he was proud, the character of the old man in "A Well Lighted Place” was defeated he had money and a family but he wasn’t happy with that he was happy with just a barley and a nice little bar. He was calm polite and was content but not a strong person he sounded defeated sad and depressed “he tried to commit suicide”

Hemingway would starve himself until he wrote a piece he was happy with and he would drink a lot of alcohol and I have a feeling that the old man in the story did something similar. The old man had tried to kill himself and so did Hemingway as did almost every man in Hemingway’s family. Most writers write about their own experiences and their own lives and Hemingway’s story a well lighted place was hopefully just a made up story, but all the facts point to him writing about him self.

Hemingway is the old man, the old man is Hemmingway any way you look at it its obvious that the two people are one even if one is in the distance future. There is no way that Hemingway could of guessed that he was going to become that old man in the story, yet somehow he wrote as if he was in that bar with the old man himself.



Faiyaz Hasan

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