The Karoo Cafe is the home of like-minded individuals, a gathering place of people with the same mentality. Claude Monet created a series of cafe paintings that portray the cafe as a free-and-easy environment in which free thinkers, writers and artists, and ordinary citizens could come together to experience the diversity and prosperity of nineteenth century France. For Monet, the Cafe was a symbol of everything that was free from the restraints of traditional thought and it epitomized modern Parisian life.