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...ou do you can not shake this feeling of emptiness. Maybe you feel like there is no reason to live for since no one understands you. That is the way the old man felt in Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". " ' Last week he tried to commit suicide,' one waiter said." (86) Many people feel this way in our society. As did the old man in the story. The human experience of loneliness has two aspects, that of innocence and experience, through which we can better understand and grow as humans. Loneliness is a feeling most of us will experience sooner or later in our lifetime. For some it might be in their young childhoods or others it might be in their adult life. It is just a matter of time. Lonelines...