A Clean, Well-lighted Place-Hemingway Story vs. Film

The story and movie were similar but had many differences. In the movie much of the symbolism was lost in the story the old man sat in the only shaded area which showed despair and loneliness while in the movie that had the old man in the light probably so that we could see him better. Also the people who acted in it made it different since they were Irish or Scottish. Their accent made it difficult to understand what they were saying. All that had made a difference.

While the movie did not portray the story very well it had its advantages. The music in the movie had let us imagine the sadness much better than the story. But that was all that was good about the movie. If the adaptation hadn't lost much of the symbolism and also had different actors it would have been better.

Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway

Author's Note: This is a Analysis of A Clean and Well-lighted Place-Hemingway. I am talking about 2 waiters in the story.

The two waters represent life. The younger waiter shows how the inexperienced(young people) show more rage and would lose their cool faster while the older waiter shows that the experience(old people) are more calm and have more wisdom. In this case the younger waiter lost his cool with the old man and got enraged about how he wouldn't leave so the young waiter made him leave and was talking about how the old man should have died. The older waiter knew why the old man was like that and he felt for him and wanted to let him stay to drink in the quiet place they call the cafe.

What Will Happen?

Author’s note: This is a prediction piece on the short novel Ransom of the Red Chief by O. Henry. It is on what will happen after that book has ended.

Mice allergic to cheese, policemen getting arrested are both examples of irony. Another example is this short novel. In Ransom of the Red Chief two people kidnap a kid, but soon find out the kid has them trapped. They ask for a ransom of money to the parents but the parents soon decline and offer them to take the kid off their hands for a price. Afterwards they run getting as far away from the kid as possible. That was where the short novel ended but the story does not have to end there as well.

After the two men run they will split up. One of the men will star earning a honest living while the other keep on kidnapping. Without the help from his partner the kidnapper keeps on failing. He loses all of his money soon and finally gets arrested for kidnapping. The partner hears of this and bails him and they start earning a honest living together continue the friendship they had.

Why I predict this is because the man who want to start earning a honest living was the one who suffered more from the kid. He did not want to go through that ever again so he quit and wanted to live honestly. The other man did not learn his lesson so he kept on trying to kidnap. He could not do it with just himself and fails and loses all of his money. He got arrested because after he became broke, the sheer desperation for money and made him less careful. The partner however still thought of his friend and he was lonely. He wanted his friend back and when he heard he got arrested he bailed him so that they could start living honestly together.

Background knowledge on what pain, desperation, and friendship can do to a person also helped predict this. When someone goes through lots of suffering because of something they would want to quit doing that. That is what happened to the person who suffered from the kid. He had enough of it and quit. Also when someone gets desperate they don’t think straight and they make mistakes. That is what happened to the person who lost all of his money. He got desperate and finally got caught kidnapping. Friendship can make people go out of their way to help their friends. That is the person who was making a honest living bailed his friend so that they could be with each other again.

That is what I predict happens to the kidnappers. The background knowledge helped predict what would happen because without it we would not know what their actions could have been. Pain, desperation, and friendship are all things that happened in the prediction and knowing how those have been a part of other books and movies helps.