A clean well lighted place by Ernest Hemingway is the ultimate story about the deep human struggle to find one"s inner place in a vast all-encompassing world. This spiritual inner place is one which can only be accessed through a physical place which is conducive to a higher state of spiritual being. This need to find one"s personal place in the world stems from the fact that humankind is so exceedingly vulnerable and insignificant. Thus people create a place which brings sense out of the senseless. For some to find this place in order to elevate themselves from the madness...
this need and therefore go to bars and nightclubs in substituition for what they are really lacking. They assume that they are fulfilling a need of theirs, without realizing that they are only covering up a much deeper need which may be temporarily fulfilled through partying. As people age, though, they realize that partying was just a substituition for the lack of personal space that people not only desire, but need as well. Eventually most people find this personal space in a house of worship. Others turn to clean well-lighted cafes. After all, it is nothing more than insomnia.