O starości w opowiadaniach Ernesta Hemingwaya i malarstwie Edwarda Hoppera

This article is an attempt to explore and comment upon the characteristics of the phenomenon of old age presented in short stories A Clean, Well‑Lighted Place and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and two paintings by Edward Hopper Hotel by the Railroad and Second Story Sunlight. The analysis of the form and content of the works allows to observe a common, dismal vision of the old age. Old age is connected with a feeling of alienation and solitude which the artists conveyed by using elements of nature, light, and space.