Qualities: A Look at the Hotel Keeper in Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” Sympathetic qualities endear characters to the reader in stories; they are the elements of a character’s personality that attract attention and hold emotion. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain‚” these characteristics and resulting actions support the story’s purpose. The hotel keeper exhibits several sympathetic qualities including fatherly concern and attentiveness to his work. The hotel keeper shows fatherly concern for
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Gladys Contreras Dr. M. Leiby English 1B Honors 14 Oct 2010 Analysis Paper 1 A Means to An End “Cat in the Rain” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. He was able to portray women’s problems and also their ability to respond to their sadness with affinity. The story revolves around the relationship of George and his wife‚ traveling to an unknown place where the wife gets to voice out her sentiments in her life. Initially‚ George looks nice‚ but he is actually cruel. On the other hand
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CAT IN THE RAIN Ernest Hemingway There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens
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Hemingway (1899-1961) CAT IN THE RAIN Ernest Hemingway’s importance as a creator of a unique style‚ as n speaker for the "lost generation"‚ as a humanitarian and an antifascist cannol be overestimated. "Cat in the Rain"‚ published in the first collection of his short prose (192 S) remains one of the stories most often reprinted‚ translated and admired by tin- readers. It is also highly characteristic of his individual manner. There were only two Americans at the hotel. They did not know any of
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The cat seems to be a big focus in Hemingway’s story In his short story Cat in the Rain‚ Ernest Hemingway uses imagery and subtlety to convey to the reader that the relationship between the American couple is in crisis and is quite clearly dysfunctional. In other words‚ the reader has to have a symbolic reading of the images. In fact‚ what seems to be a simple tale of an American couple spending a rainy afternoon inside their hotel room serves as a great metaphor for their relationship
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“Cat in the Rain” recounts the story of an American couple on vacation in Italy. The entirety of the story’s action takes place in or around the couple’s hotel‚ which faces the sea as well as the "public garden and the war monument".Throughout the story it rains‚ leaving the couple trapped within their hotel room. As the American wife watches the rain‚ she sees a cat crouched “under one of the dripping green tables.” Feeling sorry for the cat that “was trying to make herself so compact she would
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The story “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway is about an American couple who stays at a hotel with a beautiful view of the sea and different monuments. After describing the view from their hotel room‚ on the second floor‚ Ernest continues the story with the American woman having a conflict. The story begins when she noticed a kitty outside her window trying to find shelter from the rain; she instantly wanted to go get the kitty. With her husband wanting to continue to read she started her journey
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Megan Young English 1102 2/28/12 Cat in the Rain Cat in the Rain is a short story about an American couple on vacation to Italy. They are in their first year of marriage. The husband has a dismissive attitude towards the wife and the wife always wants more. In the story the couple has a lot of selfishness going on in their relationship. The husband ignores his wife’s needs and the wife and the wife is not satisfied with her husband. The theme of this story has a lot to do with loneliness in
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A. E. Hemingway “Cat in the Rain” Text Interpretation We tend to think of marital life as of a wonderful time‚ when two soul mates live happily‚ worshiping each other. However‚ having a family and seeming happy‚ one can be misunderstood and feel lonely. And this is the theme of Ernest Hemingway’s story “Cat in the rain”. The story is about a young American couple‚ who spend their time in Italy. The reader knows nothing about the couple’s past‚ and even the American
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Husband vs. Innkeeper In Hemingway’s story “Cat in the Rain‚” there are four characters; the husband‚ his wife‚ the innkeeper‚ and a maid. The focus of this story is on the wife’s want of a cat. The innkeeper resolves this issue but in the process makes the husband look bad. In fact in this story the husband appears insensitive‚ rude‚ and lazy; the innkeeper is contrasted as being completely the opposite of the husband. In this story it appears that innkeeper is a model of what this woman’s husband
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