“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway is a simplistic short story in which he recounts a scene in a cafe, where the main characters are two waiters and an old man. In the story, Hemingway created almost no background for his characters, but this was part of his minimalist writing style. He wanted to create a story that was simple for the reader and in which they could easily understand his attitude. His purpose in writing this story was to expose his feelings about the society, politics and individual of the time. These feelings could be characterized by three main words: despair, disillusionment and loneliness. Through all the characters in his story, the reader was able to feel one of these feelings. However, when I read the story, I wanted to know more about the characters so I could connect with them. I wanted to know how and why each of them acquired these feelings? So I decided to change the point of view of the story from a limited third person point of view to a first person point of view. Unlike Hemingway, I included more personal details about one of the main characters, in this case the old man, who I consider to be the most mysterious character of the three. In this way, I could lead the reader to identify more with the emotions conveyed by the story. Therefore, by showing the reader the old man's background, I reinforced Hemingway's attitude towards his original story and also established a connection between the reader and the character(s). ). However, I also had to change some of the plot and language to make my scene coherent and relevant to my point of view. The most radical change I made to Hemingway's short story was the change in point of view limited to the third person. at first -by... middle of paper ...... When I first read "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway, I thought I was missing a connection to the story. I didn't feel like I knew the characters, which left me with no connection with them and also intrigued me, especially the old man. Why did Hemingway leave out his characters' backgrounds? This motivated me to write my scene from the old man's point of view. I felt that by switching to the first person point of view, the reader would feel more drawn to the story, and at the same time I could keep Hemingway's attitude of despair and disillusionment intact, perhaps even make it stronger. With my part of the puzzle, I felt more at peace with his original story and was able to establish a relationship between Hemingway (as a writer) and me (as a reader). I could sense his motivation for writing “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”.