Cat in the rain
Ernest Hemingway – Cat in the Rain
Ernest Hemingway was a very famous American author who managed to publish seven novels, six short story collections, two non-fiction works; Win the Nobel Prize in literature, survive two successive plane crashes and be a part of three wars, before committing suicide at the age of 61 in 1961.
“When less is more”- Ernest Hemingway’s career as an author was based on that phrase. Many, if not all, of his short stories have been written in a minimalistic writing style and Cat in the Rain is no exception.
Throughout the short story, it’s easy to see that the Cat in the Rain is a minimalistic short story. We see a lack of details regarding the characters. We don’t get to hear the name of the wife, we only know her as the American wife, or the American girl. We don’t get a lot of details either about the American wife or George, the husband. But in the end we do get some details about the American wife but only because she talks loudly about her appearance and desires in front of her husband.
Unimportant things do in some cases have a decent description in a minimalistic story, and that’s also the case in Cat in the Rain; the settings outside the hotel and the war monument have been described pretty well.
The sentences are short and the language is simple, which confirms that this is a minimalistic short story.
The American wife and her husband don’t have a healthy relationship. George doesn’t really pay attention to his wife, and it is only half-hearted when he offers to get her the cat. It seems like they have had an unhealthy relationship for quite a long time, since they don’t share their thoughts or opinions, they only small talk.
“The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance.”
The padrone makes the wife feel important, in fact she has a feeling of supreme importance. But the feeling is only momentary, which implies that George
Ernest Hemingway was a very famous American author who managed to publish seven novels, six short story collections, two non-fiction works; Win the Nobel Prize in literature, survive two successive plane crashes and be a part of three wars, before committing suicide at the age of 61 in 1961.
“When less is more”- Ernest Hemingway’s career as an author was based on that phrase. Many, if not all, of his short stories have been written in a minimalistic writing style and Cat in the Rain is no exception.
Throughout the short story, it’s easy to see that the Cat in the Rain is a minimalistic short story. We see a lack of details regarding the characters. We don’t get to hear the name of the wife, we only know her as the American wife, or the American girl. We don’t get a lot of details either about the American wife or George, the husband. But in the end we do get some details about the American wife but only because she talks loudly about her appearance and desires in front of her husband.
Unimportant things do in some cases have a decent description in a minimalistic story, and that’s also the case in Cat in the Rain; the settings outside the hotel and the war monument have been described pretty well.
The sentences are short and the language is simple, which confirms that this is a minimalistic short story.
The American wife and her husband don’t have a healthy relationship. George doesn’t really pay attention to his wife, and it is only half-hearted when he offers to get her the cat. It seems like they have had an unhealthy relationship for quite a long time, since they don’t share their thoughts or opinions, they only small talk.
“The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance.”
The padrone makes the wife feel important, in fact she has a feeling of supreme importance. But the feeling is only momentary, which implies that George