The essence of existentialism takes on a leading role in Ernest Hemingway's story “A clean and well-lit place” underlining the idea of ​​life as a void of chaotic nothingness . In the opening paragraph, Hemingway's immediate diagnosis of the old man's condition as a suicidal drunkard despite his wealth demonstrates the idea that despair is impartial and those upon whom the realization of nothingness comes about are left with the desire to match their internal incapacities with temporary physical relief. . Hemingway's dogma describes the self-paralyzing effects of the terrible realization that one's life is essentially meaningless, creating a profound sense of emotional upheaval and existential questions that, by extension, also render everything else meaningless. , Well-lit place” doesn't seem to have much merit. It is a plotless story, with no substance to feed the mind, but upon careful reading, the simplicity of the story is enough to generate an intense vision of sentimental nothingness. The first signs of this emotional oppression by nothingness are found in the opening dialogue between two bar waiters discussing why an old man attempted suicide. They conclude that the reason is “Nothing. He has a lot of money” (Hemingway 167). It is clear that the old man experiences a desperation that he believes cannot be tamed except by death. Having failed in his plan, sobriety is unbearable, so he “[sits] in the shade that the tree leaves [make] against the electric light” of a bar every evening well beyond the stay of the other customers; sometimes he drinks so much that he forgets to pay (Hemingway 167). symbolic is the literal darkness in which the old man is shrouded: black, which is the... center of the card... his granddaughter, still young and unaware, believes she has saved him and given him the possibility of eternal life in the afterlife, but the old man finds no vitality in religion and was actually trying to escape his present life (Bassett 1). “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” is so cleverly crafted to represent the idea of ​​nothingness that the story itself is contrived so as to leave the reader with nothing. The minimal details, short and flat dialogue, and lack of plot force the reader to perceive the internal chaos described by the old man and the older waiter. There is no happy ending or any explanation, just an excruciating need to occupy your mind elsewhere, not to think about what you have read, to find a clean, well-lit place. Although the story claimed a lack of meaning, the meaning in the story is clear: everything in life means nothing, alienation is inevitable, and death is a sweet finality..