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iable youth. The theme of Nada consists of three forms: the consciousness of death, the awareness of bitterness and the consciousness of absurdity. Hemingway was good at describing death. If his otherworks are read, it can be found that there are a lot of works involved with the topic of death. In the short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place, even if there is no bloody description, no subject about bull fighting, war, and violence and so on, the death can still be felt and touched. The awareness of bitterness can be found in this short story as well. The characters in the short story were despaired, depressed and aimless. Ⅲ. Encoding the Theme——Nada As Nada (Nothingness) is the theme of the short story A Clean and Well-lighted Place, does Hemingway lose his way in the pessimism? The novel involves the theme of death and fear, how to understand the theme of the short story correctly? In order to answer these questions, at first, it is necessary to make a study of the origin and essence of Nada. A. The Origin of Nada Some scholars think Hemingway’s idea of Nada comes from the ancient philosophy of pessimism. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the important philosophers in ancient western countries. According to Nietzsche, Nada was a historic movement. Nietzsche pronounced “the God was dead” and it was human being’s own idea that the almighty God would help them. As well as it is known, in western countries and the United States, religion plays a very important part in people’s everyday life. People believe in God, and they regard God as the almighty and supreme divinity who creates and dominates the entire creature. In the belief of Christianity, people believe in human being’s original sin. Only if one believes in the God, he can be saved. However, when Nietzsche pronounced “the God was dead”, it meant that the belief of religion, which was once the spirit pillar for thousands of years, collapsed. In fact, Nada reveals the rootlessness of human’s beliefs. The rootlessness of human being’s beliefs did not appear accidentally. It was an outcome of the development of industry. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, the first industrial revolution took place in Britain and quickly influenced the western countries and the United States. The industrialization brought great benefits to people. At the same time, it led to many problems as well. For example, since the widely setting up of the factories, the atmosphere was full of roaring and large scale of aggressiveness. In order to satisfy the needs of industries, people exhausted energy resources. The pollution of the environment accompanied the industrialization and mechanization. The technical invention did not bring actual benefits to the poor. In the rural area, factories and railways took up the fertile farm land. Then farmers lost their homes and transformed to be workers. Work done by machines had replaced manual labour. The workers were assembled in a place and their work time was prolonged, but the payment was lowered. The fatal flaw of the capitalism was exposed. The worker’s movement was put on in capital society. On one hand, the great changes in people’s everyday life led to the revolution in social thoughts. The Victorian structure, which was based on the Puritan morality and the capitalist rationalism, was up-to-date. In the less competitive age, people followed the code of polite behavior, but now it did not adapt to the new situation a