A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Historical Context

This Study Guide consists of approximately 79 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Historical Context

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Hemingway's Folk

Many things account for the rural or small town Spanish characters and scenery of Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." First, as an expatriate artist living on the continent in the 1920s, Hemingway developed a passion for Spain. He was a lifelong fan of Spanish popular traditions. He enjoyed the festivals, and he keenly appreciated the bullfight. He went to Spain often to fish in the countryside, and so he came to know its plainer people.

In addition to this familiarity with Spain's rural peoples, 'plain folk' (e.g. waiters in small towns) provide an escape from the effete, or anything resonant of "civilization" which Hemingway scrupulously wishes to avoid in his art. This is so because the disaster that was WWI was a founding event and trauma in Hemingway's life. His most admired novel, Sun Also Rises(1926), takes place around a Spanish popular festival and is...

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