海明威短篇小说赏析

Settings and atmosphere
• 1. The social setting:
• Young waitor: confident and job • Old waitor: has nothing • Atmosphere: lonely and nonsense
Symbolism
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• 1. The physical setting:
• Time:from day time to night • Place: a clean, well-lighted place • Atmosphere: a sense of security and peace but a
Not important: word The most important: to convey the idea about world The shortness makes the point more powerful.
Writing style
• 2.Consist of a lot of dialogues • Colloquial and loose
Symbolism
• 3.brandy: protection that helps the old man live in dignity
• 4.nada: hopelessness, loneliness, nothinglessness
• 5. insomnia: the feeling of loneliness, the darkness of life, the segregation from the world
It was late and every one had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light.
The fuction of simple vocabulary
little upset and hopelessness
Settings and atmosphere • 1. The mental setting:
• Atmosphere: stress • Feeling: nothinglessness,confusion, • loss, huge despair
Writing style
• 3. The dialogues are deviated from normal conversation order
said by young waitor
The point of view
• The third person narrator
Function: to see both inside and outside of character’s mind to reveal the true meaning of the story
• 1. clean and well-lighted café: a peaceful place and shelter in their heart, which gives comfort, warmth and security
• 2. shadow of tree: protection from the lonely and nothingless reality
A clean，well-lighted place
Contents
• Writing style • The point of view • Setting and atmosphere • Symbolism
Writing style
• 1. Simple and easy to understand