How would you broadly describe views of life of the characters in Ernest Hemingway's story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?

The personalities and views of life of the three main
characters in Ernest Hemingway's story "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" might briefly be
described as follows:

THE YOUNGER
WAITER

• Condescending, as in the
  way he slurs his words when speaking to the old
  man.


• Emphatic, as when he refuses to serve the old man
  another drink.


• Cocky, as in his confidence in his own
  instant opinions.


• Shameless, as when he tells the older
  waiter that the old man should have killed
  himself.


• Materialistic, as in his concern to be
  paid.


• Impatient, as in his repeated desire to get
  home.


• Self-confident, as when speaks of his eagerness to
  go home to his wife.


• Touchy, as when he suspects that the
  older waiter may be insulting him.


• Occasionally capable
  of thinking of others, as when the narrator says of
  him,

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He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a
hurry.

• Cruel, as
  when he tells the old man (who fortunately can't hear) that he should have killed
  himself.


• His view of life
  seems shallow, selfish, materialistic, hedonistic, and immature. He seems to think that
  the world revolves around him and around his needs and
  desires.


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THE
OLDER WAITER

• Perceptive, as when
  discussing the old man's state of mind.


• Tolerant, as in
  his attitude toward the old man staying
  late.


• Knowledgeable, as when he explains the old man's
  suicide attempt.


• Non-judgmental, as when he doesn't
  condemn the old man for trying to kill himself.


• Capable
  of imagining and appreciating immaterial things, such as the old man's
  soul.


• Capable of humor, as when he jokes with the younger
  waiter.


• Aware of his own growing loneliness and
  age.


• Capable of appreciating order and simple
  pleasures.


• Thoughtful, as when he speculates on the old
  mna's feelings.


• Courteous, as when he thanks the
  barman.


• Troubled, as his apparent "insomnia"
  suggests.


• His view of life
  seems mature and thoughtful and
  humane.


• 
  

THE
OLD MAN

• Capable of despair, as
  his recent suicide attempt suggets


• Financially
  comfortable (his suicide attempt was not due to a lack of
  money)


• Lonely, as in the opening
  scene.


• Clean: the older waiter admires the old man's
  ability to drink without spilling his liquor.


• Dignified,
  as in the way he drinks quietly and expects no
  sympathy.


• Respectful:he fails to pay only when he becomes
  drunk, not because he deliberately wants to cheat anyone else. He also thanks the young
  waiter for pouring him a drink.


• Perceptive, as when he
  senses the transition from daytime to nighttime even though he is blind.
  


• The old man's view of life
  seems rooted in the pain of aging and loneliness -- feelings the young waiter cannot yet
  appreciate but which the older waiter has begun to
  understand.