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    The document provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain". It summarizes the key elements of the story, including the setting of a sunny hotel room contrasting with a rainy moment, the point of view of a third-person narrator, and the main characters of the indifferent American husband George and the American wife who wants to care for a cat seeking shelter from the rain. It also analyzes symbols like the wife's short hair and the cat in the rain representing her internal crisis and desire for independence. The conclusion discusses Hemingway's understated writing style and how he leaves room for interpretation while allowing characters to speak for themselves.

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    The document provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain". It summarizes the key elements of the story, including the setting of a sunny hotel room contrasting with a rainy moment, the point of view of a third-person narrator, and the main characters of the indifferent American husband George and the American wife who wants to care for a cat seeking shelter from the rain. It also analyzes symbols like the wife's short hair and the cat in the rain representing her internal crisis and desire for independence. The conclusion discusses Hemingway's understated writing style and how he leaves room for interpretation while allowing characters to speak for themselves.

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    The document provides an analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain". It summarizes the key elements of the story, including the setting of a sunny hotel room contrasting with a rainy moment, the point of view of a third-person narrator, and the main characters of the indifferent American husband George and the American wife who wants to care for a cat seeking shelter from the rain. It also analyzes symbols like the wife's short hair and the cat in the rain representing her internal crisis and desire for independence. The conclusion discusses Hemingway's understated writing style and how he leaves room for interpretation while allowing characters to speak for themselves.

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    HEMINGWAY

    Cat in the rain

    Setting

    At first: description of a sunny, hotel room facing the sea, public garden with palms an Green
    benches, bright colors

    “There were big palms and green benches… an artist with his easel”

    Contrast: momentary situation in the rain: gloomy, sad atmosphere, dripping…

    Point of view

    Narrator: 3rd person limited omniscient

    Characters

    George: the American husband who only cares about reading and books (passive)

    The roots of his indifference are intellectual and psychological

    The hotel-keeper: looks after “the American wife”, he is there only to serve her. He is old and
    kind ->what she wants in a husband

    Conclusion: George: indifferent, oppressive: reality

    The hotel-keeper: opposite to it.

    The American wife: sensible, needs to take care of a baby cat, natural, satisfied (more or less)
    and shy

    “The American Wife stood at the window looking out. outside right under the window a car
    was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so
    compact that…”

    The American wife: childish, selfish

    “I wants it so much”, she said. “I don’t know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty.
    It isn’t any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.”

    Symbolism

    Short hair: weakness, lack of feminity

    Cat: reality / wish  subconscious


    1)internal crisis: identification = comfortable bourgeois domesticity

    2)Individuality : independence = freedom

    3) possession: take care = baby

    4) a woman’s representation: cat + rain = invocation

    Hemingway’s writing style

    *distinctive, characterized by economy and understatement

    *iceberg theory

    Strong influence on the development of 20th century fiction

    Protagonists: often stoical men who live the expression “grace under pressure”

    Works : classics of American literature

    Prefers to leave details of character to the sensibilities of the reader, allowing the characters to
    speak for themselves free of an omniscient narrator’s subjective observations

    Room for interpretation.

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