Talk:A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Full Text
The link to the full text at http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html contains numerous spelling and formatting errors. Can anyone provide a link to a better version? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.72.137 (talk) 02:10, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyvio
This text looks swiped from http://mchip00.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/hemingway797-des-.html. --Masamage 04:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good catch; labelled it appropriately. -- H·G (words/works) 04:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Check it
Hi, could you check this article? I'm not native-speaker so I'm not sure if it's ok. THX Krzysztofpawliszak 22:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Removed sentence fragments
The plot synopsis is very badly written. The following sentence fragments and incomplete paragraph were removed from it.


 * Inside of a café, two waiters (old and young) and the old man who is sitting outside on the terrace.


 * Eventually the old man wants


 * stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. "No more tonight. Close now".'' The old man pays for the brandy and gives a tip to the waiter.

MayerG (talk) 05:17, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Careful with these interpretations
The interpretations are written like facts, but they are not. There is no hint in the story that the old man went deaf from WW1, we can only assume this. Maybe remove or rephrase the whole "Interpretation" part? 79.254.62.53 (talk) 21:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Length of the "synopsis"
I copied the text of the story and the text of the synopsis into Microsoft Word and checked the word count: 1,420 versus 425. This "synopsis" is a full 30% as long as the short story it's supposed to be "summarizing", which isn't surprising given the level of detail it goes into. It should be cut down. Largoplazo (talk) 17:45, 21 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I've cut it down. The article needs work anyway. Victoria (tk) 20:27, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

Incorrect interpretation.
A line in the previous version asserted that the young waiter thought that the guard might pick up the old man. However, it is more reasonable to assume that this statement refers to the soldier who has just walked by with a girl. He is probably out after curfew, and MPs might nab him.

In my revision, I took the opportunity to remove some other relatively minor story elements (e.g., counting saucers and paying from a coin purse) while adding more about the last part of the story, which shifts to the point of view of the old waiter. Commasense (talk) 05:59, 12 October 2016 (UTC)