Compare and Contrast of Ernest Hemmingway´s A Clean Well...

In Ernest Hemingway’s â€Å"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place† and Sandra Cisneros’s â€Å"The House on Mango Street†, the authors describe their feelings towards the settings in a similar way. In Hemingway’s short story, two waiters at a cafà © describe the differences in their lives and how they see life before them. In Cisneros’s short story, the narrator explains her past, present, and future places of residency and the impact it has in her life. Both settings in each story are different, but also very much alike, because of the people in the stories and the feeling of want and betterment that you get from both the waiters in â€Å"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place† and the narrator in â€Å"The House on Mango Street†. In â€Å"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place†, an old man†¦show more content†¦The House on Mango Street was very small and dilapidated. There was only one bedroom and bathroom for all six of them to share. The f ront door was too big for the frame and no front yard to play in. Even though this house was far better improvement than past homes, she still had hoped for something bigger and better. The narrator gives a very descriptive view of this future dream home. She says â€Å"and inside it [will] have real stairs, not ordinary hallway stairs, but stairs like the houses on T.V†¦ [and] at least three washrooms†¦ and a big yard with grass growing without a fence† (Cisnero’s.552). The story has a theme of disappointment. The narrator keeps hoping for this elaborate home, but just keeps getting disappointed. For the older waiter in â€Å"A Clean Well-Lighted Place†, the cafe symbolizes home because he feels that is all the he has. He says that he lacks confidence but he does have a job. He doesnt want to leave the cafe and he feels that others can benefit from such a place as having somewhere to go. The narrator in â€Å"The House on Mango Street† realizes that she does not feel she has a place called home. The story symbolizes for her a place of wanting better for herself. She has always known promises, but she has never seen them and she vows to herself to have that one day. The older waiter and Esperanza are alike in that they both believe in something so great for themselves. For example the older waiter