"A Clean Well Lighted Place"

The short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place" written by Ernest Hemingway is about to waiters, one young and one old, who are having a conversation about an old man who comes in to the cafe to drink the night away. I really liked the story. I liked how Hemingway was able to make the old waiter and the old drunken man parallel. As I was reading I couldn't help, but think how one day the older waiter will be the old drunken man in the cafe. The old drunken man and the older waiter are similar in that they would rather be in a well lighted cafe drinking all night than to go outside in the cold lonely darkness. This story is my second favorite out of all we have read. Amy Tan's being the first.