• The Significance of Purpose in Life, analysis of "A Clean Well-lighted Place"

     

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Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
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The Significance of Purpose in Life
A life without purpose and belief is a life without meaning and hope. Solitary elderly people who believe that suffering and death are essentially arbitrary part of the world need a place of refuge from this terrible awareness that human lives are essentially meaningless. Hemingway, in his "A Clean Well-lighted Place," has skillfully expressed a philosophical implication in accordance with the denial of metaphysics. He portrays the characters in such a way that identifies their thoughts, and the views suggest to his readers that life is ultimately meani…

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