The setting of the short story to me is one of those mom and pop cafe's or diners that are well kept and cleaner than most with every light working so every spot of the cafe is lighted. Between the time of world war II and maybe in spain since they speak some spanish. The idea of a well lighted place is significant because its about the cafe and most of the short story takes place at the cafe and the older waiter says there is nothing like a well lighted place. They are nameless because in the short story he's not to worried about the names being different he wants us to see the different points of view from age differences about a well lighted place. The plot, the conflict in the story is the old man wanting to keep drinking his brandy and not wanting to leave while the young waiter wants too. The rising action is when the young waiter and old waiter are talking about why they do or do not want to close and go home. Complications are the point of view of the two waiters on closing and the reason to stay open. Climax is when the old waiter is at the bar saying that the bar is not like the well lighted cafe and its not as clean. Falling action is when he is in bed and said its just insomnia probably.
The theme to me is even though the cafe is just a cafe to the young waiter its a well lighted place to the old waiter, basically one mans trash is another mans treasure. The old man and older waiter are the same because they both enjoy the well lighted cafe, they are both alone and old also like to drink they are different because the old man has a lot of money and the older waiter still has to work at a cafe. They are both different than the young waiter because while they rather stay in the cafe and enjoy the cafe the young waiter would rather leave and be home. And they are the same because they all spend time at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Illinois and he died on July 2, 1961. He won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He married 1922 to Hadley Richardson after her he remarried 3 more time. Throughout his life he lived in Illinois, Paris, and after a almost life taking safari to Africa retired to Key West and Cuba and finally moved to Idaho his last few years where he committed suicide. Three facts that relate him to the story is the suicide, world war II also and uses spanish like how he was in cuba.
