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Ernest Hemingway’s “A Cat in the Rain”
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Ernest Hemingway’s “A Cat in the Rain”
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Thus, we also notice that the information is non-restrictive.
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The rain also symbolises the sadness that she feels and the loneliness.
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time we left them, “It was getting dark”, “It was quite dark and still raining
in the palm trees.”
In the end, she gets a cat, brought by the maid on request of the
padrone. It does not seem to be the same cat, because the first one was a
small cat, referred as “kitty” or “the poor kitty” and this is “a big tortoise-
shell cat”; however, the important thing is that she finally gets something to
take responsibility for and that symbolises the first step in the direction of a
grown-up life. However, even though she seems to be going forward and
improving herself, it seems that their relationship is not going to make any
progress, and in this sense, it is “the American wife” the one that can be
understood to resemble a forlorn cat, a cat in the rain.
In conclusion, most of Hemingway’s stories come out of the author’s
consideration of the relation between life and art and also out of guilt for
his art’s effect upon his life. There is a close link between the story the
narrator (omniscient narrator) is telling and Hemingway himself. There
seems to be certain autobiographical undertone. But, in general, “A Cat in
the Rain” is a recapitulation of Hemingway’s philosophy of life. He
believed that people were isolated, lonely and not able to establish happy
relationships.
Hemingway wrote stories by and for rational creatures
who care about feeling cool and clear inside
themselves, who care about a clean, well-lighted place
for thought and action within the necessary human
limitations. As long as anyone cares for these, the
greatness and cogency of Hemingway’s short stories
will remain undiminished. (Magill,6002).
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