In The Light

I think it is very strange that the older waiter ends up going to a bar. Towards the end of the story he tells the younger waiter, “‘you do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant café.  It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.’”(344).  In the end the older waiter goes home and falls asleep when the sun is starting to rise. I don’t think he has an epiphany because he doesn’t realize anything new.  It seems as though he goes through the same cycle every night when he says, “After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia.”(345).  This does not seem sudden to him and earlier in the story he was telling the younger waiter he would rather stay open late than close early and get home at a sooner time.  The older waiter can relate to the old man but he knew that they were similar throughout the story or else he would not try to defend him against the young waiter’s rude remarks.  This also is not an epiphany for the older waiter because he could relate to the old man since the beginning of the story and it was not a sudden realization that he and the old man live similar lives.