A Clean, Well-lighted Place

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finds it content. The two waiters comment that although he is "A good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying." The younger of the two waiters wants to go home. He has a wife and claims he never gets "into bed before three o’clock." He treats the deaf old man as if he were dumb. He speaks to him "with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners." The young waiter knows that the old man tried to commit suicide last week, but feels no remorse for him. He is too preoccupied with closing the café to get home. It is not important to the young waiter that the old man has a clean place to stay. Unlike the old man, the young waiter says he has "confidence." "‘You have youth, confidence, and a job,’ the older waiter said. ‘You have everything.’" He has no reason to hide from the dark. He like the soldier and girl, can find excitement in the dark. He is not ...

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