Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted PLace"

One night a deaf old man sat be himself in an empty cafe. the only people around were the two waiters. One waiter was young and had a wife and everything good going for him, while the other waiter was older but not as old as the man. They started talking about how the old man would always sit at the cafe and get drunk. He had tried to kill himself before but his niece had stopped him both times. The old man believed that he had nothing to live for. The waiters started to reflect their lives with his. The older waiter understood where the old man was coming from. the young waiter could not. The young waiter finally headed home as did the old man, but before the older waiter left he started talking of how there is nothing really to live for. Then he too also went home.