How might one compare and contrast Ernest Hemingway's story "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" and with William Faulkner's story "The Bear"?

Anyone
reading s story A Clean, Well Lighted Place side-by-side with William Faulkners story The
Bear might be struck by a number of similarities and differences, including the
following:

• Both works deal with young people who have a lot to
  learn, but Ike McCaslin seems to learn more in The Bear than the young waiter does in A
  Clean, Well Lighted Place.
• Ike matures more than the young waiter does,
  partly because Ike is more willing to learn from persons older than he is.


• Both Ike and the young waiter have father figures in their stories (Sam in the case
  of Ike; the older waiter in the case of the young waiter), but Ike seems more open to
  instruction than the young waiter is.
• A bond forms between Ike and Sam
  despite their different racial backgrounds, but the young waiter seems far less willing to move
  beyond his own narrow, limited perspective.
• Ike learns valuable lessons
  about humanitys place in the universe, but the young waiter seems far less open to such
  learning.
• The young waiter seems far more selfish and uncaring than Ike, as
  when he says to an old deaf man who lingers too long in the caf© where the waiter works,
  

"You should have killed yourself last
week."

It is hard to imagine Ike ever being so
callous and cruel.