关于海明威作品A Clean，Well-Lighted Place的问题，请解答。

question： what besides insomnia makes the older waiter reluctant to go to bed？comment especially on his meditation with its nada refrain. why does he so well understand the old man's need for a cafe? what does the cafe represent for the two of them?

随便答一两句就好了，考试时的提问回答，并非essay question，个人见解或官方答案均可（反正写了老师都会给点分的）。鉴于群众要求提高悬赏至20分。

The old man is afraid of the darkness and loneliness,He need cafe's whiskey to encourage himself to live,to insist.
The cafe represent the soul shelter or the rest harbor for the two.The old man is badlly treated to be desperate and in despair.

This Q is so special that few want to answer it .Beacause you mixed too many into one,This can be an essay,buddie!

this story was written by ernest hemingway.his major works are a farewell to arms in 1929,for whom the bell tolls in 1940 and the old man and the sea in 1952.i had read two novels of him, a farewell to arms and the old man and the sea.especially the old man and the sea,the story of an old fisherman's journey,his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea,and his victory in defeat,so i like it very much. the theme of this story this story talks about loneliness.nada(nothingness) was an important theme and key word of this story.it consists of three forms: the consciousness of death,the awareness of bitterness and the consciousness of absurdity.and the characters in the story were despaired,depressed and aimless.