“And what do you lack?”
“Everything but work.”
(Kennedy 150)
In this short story by Ernest Hemingway, we learn about an older deaf man who frequents a café and is the subject of the two waiters; one young and the other old. It’s obvious that the younger waiter is irritated with the older deaf man because he stays late and sometimes leaves without paying. The quote above reveals, to me, that the older waiter can relate to the old deaf patron; one works at the cafe and the other frequents the café, and both men don’t seem to have much more going on in their lives. Both of the older men are lonely and stay out till early in the morning. Their inability to verbally communicate disables them from engaging in chit-chat they might otherwise enjoy; which would fill a void of loneliness.
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