a-clean--well-lighted-place英语学习课件.ppt

2021/2/12 * 2-1 The short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place took place in a Spanish café. The plot was focused on the old man, the middle aged waiter and the young waiter.The old man was the main character in the short story. Late at night, everyone had left the café except the old deaf man, who was a little drunk. The two waiters were worried that he might leave without paying if he became deeply drunk. Then they kept watching on him and began their conversation about the old man, through which more information can be learned about the old man. 2021/2/12 * 2-2 Hemingway took the two waiters as known information, and the old man as unknown information. There was a sharp contrast between the youth and oldness, between the old and young waiters. In fact, the old man, the middle aged waiter and the young waiter represent the youth, the middle age and the old age in the different stages of life. In each stage, people have different attitudes towards life and they lead different ways of life. At the same time, the three typical characters also reflect the people’s spiritual state after the WWI in American society. 2021/2/12 * 3-1 The old man’s character is complex. Being depressed but still keeping dignity was the old man’s image created by Hemingway, which fits the image of “Hemingway Hero”. 2021/2/12 * 3-2 On the one hand, the old man was weak, despaired and extremely unhappy. He had a lot of money but lost belief. He stopped believing in anything that might have been significant in the past. For him, Nothingness meant hopelessness, aimlessness and meaninglessness of the life. The old man tried to commit suicide but failed. Then he liked to sit late in the café—a clean and well-lighted place to buy drunk. 2021/2/12 * 3-3 Special attention should be paid to that the old man’s deafness was an image symbolizing his separation from the rest of the world. The old man needed a place of refuge from his terrible awareness of that human lives were meaningless. On th