In the short story, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, the setting takes place inside of a café. There was an old deaf man who always stayed at the café late at night. The old and young waiter watched him as they saw he was getting drunk. They made sure that he would pay and not leave without paying from being too drunk. The older waiter said, he tried to commit suicide the previous week. The younger waiter wondered why would he want to kill himself if he has plenty of money. The older waiter knew the reason was because of nothing. The younger waiter started to complain because, he was sleepy and did not want to stay up to three o’clock. He ended up taking the bottle of brandy to the old man and said he should of kill himself last week. The old man could not hear him from being deaf, so he asked could the waiter pour more brandy. The younger waiter continues to complain about staying up late, the older waiter explains to him the reasons why the old man is still there.” It is because he likes it and he is lonely, “he said. The younger waiter talked about having a wife at home waiting on him and the older waiter tells him that the old man used to have a wife as well. “For how he is now,” the old waiter said, he is better without a wife. In a rush to go home the younger waiter rushed over to the old man who wanted more brandy and told him that he was finished. He wiped the table off with a towel and shook his head. He told the old man there was no more for tonight and had got up and