The Cat In The Rain Essay - 635 Words

The Cat in The Rain In the short story the amp;quot;The Cat in the Rainamp;quot; by Ernest Hemingway, the cat is a symbol around which the story revolves. As a central symbol, the cat reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the American wife. When the cat is first observed it is amp;quot;crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.amp;quot;(56) Even though the wife is standing to far from the cat to determine its gender, it is described as amp;quot;she.amp;quot; This choice of words helps to make a connection for the reader between the wife and the cat. The woman sees the cat in a treacherous enviorment trying to make it through†¦show more content†¦amp;quot;We must go back inside, you will be wet.amp;quot; amp;quot;I suppose soamp;quot; says the American girl, as if her emotions are not drowning in turmoil with the life she is currently leading. It soon becomes clear to the reader why the woman probably feels like a cat drowning in the rain. Her husband is the source of her emotional despair. He leaves her drowning in a storm of indifference and lack of affection. When she goes back to the room she begins to look at herself in the mirror studying her profile feeling unwomanly with short hair. She feels this causes the lack of physical and emotional attention from her husband. When she tells him of all the things she desires, he merely tells her to amp;quot;shut up.amp;quot; He really doesn’t care about her concerns. She doesn’t defend herself from her husband’s verbal abuse but rather begins to pout like a little girl saying, amp;quot;I want a cat, I want a cat now. If I cant have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat.amp;quot;(pg57) Suggesting that her husband will not allow her to have long hair or any fun. She wants this cat so bad, in order to hold it, pet it, and love it, symbolizing what she wants physically, to be held and touched, and emotionally, to be loved and cared for. When she finally gets the cat, it is the hotel keeper who has responded to her needs, rather than her husband. The hotel keeper causes her amp;quot;a momentary feeling ofShow MoreRelatedCat in the Rain1009 Words   |  5 Pagesthe second romantic country of the world after France (well in my opinion). It is raining and the wife sees a cat in the rain and wants to protect it from the rain, which is odd because usually children are the one sensitive and naà ¯ve enough to want to protect animals from such a thing as the rain since it is not harmful to animals. Only human beings get a cold when standing out in the rain not animals! 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Well-known American writer, Ernest Hemingway, in his short story â€Å"Cat in the Rain† employs this minimalistic aesthetics effectively to achieve the theme of loneliness along with the notions such as nihilism and the lack of resolution. The use of short, simple sentences, mostly without descriptive language, is a distinctiveRead MoreCat in the Rain - Woman the Inequality3717 Words   |  15 Pagessociety in the work â€Å"Cat in the rain†? (3) What in the work â€Å"Cat in the rain† can show the reader the inequality of rights of women? â€Æ' II. BACKGROUND OF THE RESEARCH A. METHOD OF STUDY In this research paper, the main method of study used is library research with the textbook of this subject, the sources from the internet include comments, essays, analyze and the quotations. B. 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On the first reading of this short story it can be easily interpreted as a wife nagging her husband, who is lying in bed preoccupied reading a book. The young married American’s being in a foreign country on business or pleasure, (Hemingway does not say) one would expect that the expression of love would be moreRead MoreAnalysis Of Cat In The Rain By Ernest Hemingway1244 Words   |  5 Pagestowards women. Yet when Hemingway arrived back in America he saw the misogynistic attitudes towards women and their movement for suffrage. Ernest Hemingway’s â€Å"Cat in the rain† is the adventure of American women seeking suffrage in the 1920’s, alongside portraying the juxtaposition of treatment of American women to European women. â€Å"Cat in the rain† begins by defining the setting, using strong imagery of the postwar period of Italy the 1920’s. Hemingway puts emphasis on a war monument because the monument