1. Emptiness
... by both. For the time-being he has both and is content in the monotony of going to work everyday and returning home to his family each night. Even though the story takes place during or near wartime as indicated by a soldier passing by on the street, the young man is indifferent to ... to commit suicide only a week earlier the young waiter's only concern is to go home early for a change as he selfishly says, "He'll stay all night...He should have killed himself last week-(958). The narrator later condones his actions and further emphasizes the waiter's ignorance by writing, "He did not wi...
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