Possibility of agency in modern literature Literature Essay
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Another short story by Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, also speaks of agency, but in a different style. The novel opens with an old man who demonstrates a need for agency when he wants to exercise his impulse to stay late in the bar. Following discussion aims to prove the reality of this claim that “characters in modern literature seem to enjoy a greater degree of agency and control because their actions, however good or wayward they may be, are directed by free will.”