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Authors Note: This essay is a text analysis about how something may change when you go from a story to a film.

Going from a story to a film can change how the reader feels about certain things. The author might not be able to express certain things as easy as a director can. In the story A Clean, Well-lighted Place, by Ernest Hemingway, there are things that the reader may interpret differently from the film. There are many scenes in the story that don't seem as important as they do in the film. These scenes either have a lot of emphasis or not much at all.

To start of the film there a music that comes across as creepy. It may give the viewer the feeling that this is going to be a scary film. When you read the story there isn't any music which is a big change. The reader will most likely feel that it's just a casual restaurant that has nothing to do with anything scary. The importance of the music is later revealed when there is the old man sitting by himself. You can then tell that is showing how lonely the old man is and how important it is for him to have any company. 

While the music seems creepy at first it changes when the Cafe closes. In the story you can't tell that the old man is leaving, is as sad as it is. The reader will just assume that man casually left. The director of the film gave a lot of attention to the man leaving by adding music and by making the scene long. One thing that stayed the same between the story and the film was how both of the waiters felt. In both the story and film the younger waiter was rude to the old man while the older waiter didn't mind him.

On the other hand there are some events that stay the same in both the film and the story. For example the bar scene that is towards the end comes across as confusing in the story and the film. Although each come out as confusing in different ways. In the story will most likely get confused due to the odd word selection. The transition from the cafe to the bar is more clear in the film but again the bar scene is puzzling. There wasn't a lot of words plus the true intention of the scene was hard to understand. Overall the story and film were good but some things weren't clear.

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is just one example of how a readers interpretation may change by going from a story to a film or vise versa. There were many examples that came across different while there were also a lot that stayed the same. In the end the overall picture of the story and film was not impacted by the minor differences between the two.