In Ernest Hemingway's short story, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place", the concept of nada is the central and most important theme. As described by Carlos Baker, Nada is "a Something called Nothing which is so huge, terrible, overbearing, inevitable, and omnipresent that, once experienced, it can never be forgotten" (Baker 124). It is a metaphysical state that symbolizes the chaos in everyone's lives. Some people have it more than others and some deal with this idea differently …showed first 75 words of 1300 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1300 total…Snow 5 Works Cited Baker, Carlos. Hemingway...the Writer as Artist. Princeton: Princeton University Press,         1972. 123-124. Burgess, Anthony. Ernest Hemingway and His World. New York: Charles Scribner's         Sons, 1978. Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean Well-Lighted Place." Literature: Reading, Writing,         Reacting. Ed. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt         Brace College Publishers., 1997. 256-259. Hoffman, Steven K. "'Nada' and the Clean Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of         Hemingway's Short Fiction." Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:         Chelsea House, 1985. 173-192.