a clean well lighted place was written in 1981.
a clean well lighted place was written in 1981.
when was a clean well lighted place written?
1981
a clean, well-lighted place









































"a clean, well-lighted place" is a short story by american author ernest hemingway, first published in "scribner's magazine" in 1933; it was also included in his collection "winner take nothing" (1933).









































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a clean, well-lighted place
baker explains that hemingway's stories about sports are often about the athletes themselves and that the sport is incidental to the story. moreover, the story "a clean well lighted place" which on the surface is about nothing more than men drinking in a cafe late at night, is in fact about that which brings the men to the cafe to drink, and the reasons they seek light in the night—none of which is available in the surface of the plot, but lurks in the iceberg below. hemingway's story "big two-hearted river" is ostensibly about nothing, as is "a clean well lighted place", but within nothing lies the crux of the story.
iceberg theory