Blog Assignment #2

"A Clean Well-Lighted Place"

1. The setting is a cafe that has an outside sitting area, its around 1 o'clock in the morning.  The cafe faces a dirt road that has trees along the road as well as street lights.  It's really late at night, and the cafe is about ready to close.

2.  The characters are nameless because he's trying to express the characters personalities based completely on their ages.

3. An old man who suffers from insomnia, depression, and being lonely goes to a cafe and orders a drink for company.

PART II
1.It takes place in a train station in Spain in the mid-1920's while the characters discuss abortion.

2. Third Person

3. whose style is characterized by crispness, laconic dialog, and emotional understatement.


PART III


Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Mills, Illinois.  He started his career writing for a newspaper until he quit to become an ambulance driver.  In 1922 he married Hadley Richardson the first of four wives. He joined the military and served in the world war I. Then He also served in World war II.  After his many divorces he went on safari to Africa where he almost died in a plane crash.  But in the end he ended up committing suicide.




Fact.


1.  Ernest Hemingway commited suicide while his character attempted it.  
2.  Ernest Hemingway suffered from insomnia like his character in A clean Well-Lighted place.
3.  Ernest Hemingway also suffered from depression.




Work Cited:


http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1999-07/hemingway.html
http://www.leninimports.com/ernest_hemingway.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html