During the modernist era writers used direct, personal words and phrases to convey a simple point to the reader and to help them understand with their own intuition what each author the ideas are. The recurring themes of selfishness, death, and the role of women in society relate to what the world was having trouble with at the time, and Hemingway allows readers of his works to explore and understand what life might have been like in the aftermath. world. War once. Writers of the modernist era experimented with the idea of ​​re-examining all the facts that society has to offer. After the war many people wondered if there was a God or some sort of higher power, the Modernists used this idea of ​​re-examining ideas to rethink the possibility and incorporated the ideas into their works. In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” Hemingway uses the idea of ​​no religion in a form of prayer to reject the idea of ​​God in society (the “nada” prayer). This way of thinking and writing created a new mannerist idea for the world