to live a meaningless life.” Aquino essentially asks if life has no meaning, why should we live. Just as Aquino struggles to find meaning in her life, the elderly people in Ernest Hemingway's, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” face the same struggles. In Hemingway's short story, he creates a cafe to represent hope, order, and clarity to show us that as we age, there is an increasing need for an escape from despair and loneliness caused from the struggle to find meaning in life. In Hemingway's story…
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