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Essay Archive - Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
In Ernest Hemingway's short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”,
the concept of nada is the central and most important theme. As described
by Carlos Baker, Nada is “a Something called Nothing which is so huge,
terrible, overbearing, inevitable, and omnipresent that, once experienced,
it can never be forgotten” (Baker 124). It is a metaphysical state that
symbolizes the chaos in everyone's lives. Some people have it more than
others and some deal with this idea differently that others. Either way,
nada is an uncontrollable f....
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