Text Analysis

Two Waiters in One Café

Author's note: I wrote this to demonstrate text analysis on “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway.

It's late and there are two waiters working at a cafe, there is no one around and there is this one old, drunk man.  The two waiters are different, but they have to settle their differences and have to work together.  Another book like that is Big Field by Mike Lupica.  There are two boys that are different like the waiters.  The two boys have to come together the same way the waiters do in "A clean Well-lighted Place."  Hutch is the caring  one like the older waiter and Darryl is the selfish, uncaring one like the younger waiter.

 Firstly, the two stories were written in different time periods, but  two main characters in both stories aren't  alike.  The two waiters in “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” are alike to the boy in Big Field, because they have to come together and work with each other.  Even though the two stories were written in different time periods they are similar were the characters don’t like each other and they have to do work and play together.

Secondly, the author portrays that Hutch is the good guy and Darryl is the bad guy. That is the same in "A Clean Well-lighted Place", because the old waiter is portrayed the good guy like Hutch and the younger waiter is the bad guy like Darryl.  If Darryl was the main character, same with the uncaring waiter, it would change what the stories were about.  Big Field would be how Hutch is so  at taking his leadership role on the base field, and “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” would end when he went home.

Lastly, the relationship between the two characters in “A Clean Well-lighted Place” isn't good.  They are alike in many ways.  One is that the older  waiter is lonely,  and doesn't have a wife and family.  The younger waiter has a family and has a wife.  The boys have moms and dads, but Hutch's dad was an MLB shortstop.  He played and taught him that Hutch to care about the game.  Darryl just is a natural at it and is good.  He is cocky and doesn’t care what happens in a game.  The boys have to come together so that their team plays good no matter what they think of each other. 

The two stories are the same in many ways, because the two main characters are alike the other characters in the other story.  Both characters from “A Clean Well-lighted Place are different.  The older waiter is nice and lonely.  The younger waiter is mean and has a family.  The boys are different too. Hutch is caring about baseball and nice to people.  Hutch was taught to love the game of baseball.  Darryl is not caring about baseball and is mean to the coach.  The two waiter are the same to the boys in Big Field.