Title
The Characterization and the Dialogue Problem in Hemingway’s "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
After surveying the longstanding debate concerning the waiters’ dialogue, Bennett disputes David Kerner’s well-known argument that the original, unaltered 1933 version of the story is accurate regarding which waiter knows of the old man’s suicide attempt. Relying on manuscript and extra-textual evidence, Bennett concludes that the older waiter must have been the one to know about the suicide attempt and that the 1965 emended Scribner text is the correct one. See Kerner’s “The Foundation of the True Text of ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’” in Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual (1979): 279-300).
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
9
Issue
2
Date
Spring 1990
Pages
94-123
COinS
Citation
Bennett, Warren. “The Characterization and the Dialogue Problem in Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.’” Hemingway Review 9, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 94-123.