How does Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" relate directly to Ernest Hemingway's life?

The
older waiter in the story who speaks of nothingness (it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues
nada) reflects Hemingway's own worldview that was tempered into a belief in the nothingness of
existence through the trauma andof World War I. Indeed, WWI and the Spanish Civil War instilled
in Hemingway a preoccupation with suffering and dying. This preoccupation is reflected in the
Old Man who sits and drinks brandy on the terrace in the lonely hours of morning following
midnight. Some critics who have disliked this story associate the contrasts between the old and
young waiters with what they call...