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Analysis of the Appealing Structure in Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”
LI Xing-yue
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.03.004
School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
In the novel “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”, Hemingway tells the story of two waiters in a Spanish café just before closing time, talking about an old man who drank heavily in the café every night and lived a wealthy life but still wants to commit suicide. Using the iceberg principle, Hemingway purposely omits the plot, characterization of the story, and uses symbolism and repetition to describe people’s different attitudes facing the spiritual emptiness after the war, breaking the readers’ expectations, and inspiring them to explore the meaning of individual life. Therefore, based on Wolfgang Iser and Zhu Liyuan’s appealing structure theory, this paper will analyze the appealing structure in “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” at three levels: meaning construction, rhetorical techniques, and thoughts and themes. It is hoped that readers can find a new way to interpret the short story, better understand the author’s creative ideas and dig deeper into the connotation of the work.
Ernest Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-lighted Place”, appealing structure
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, March 2024, Vol. 14, No. 3, 201-206
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