Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Summary and Analysis Hemingway
as Existentialist “What did he fear? It was not fear or dread.
It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and
a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it
needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and
never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y
pues nada.” – The middle-aged waiter, “A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place.” Despite the bravado of his characters, the stirring
exoticism of his settings, and his much-admired spare, bold
writing style, Ernest Hemingway was a writer whose canon is
filled with themes of disillusionment, futility, despair and the
inevitability of death. His heroes are usually tragic ones; his
exotic settings often host scenes of violence and brutality, and
his spare writing style is often notable for the anguish it
leaves unexpressed. Hemingway, though an adventurer, risk-taker,
and world traveler, was also a philosopher deeply influenced by
currents of existent