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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Ernest 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
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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
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GUIDE FOR INTERPRETING LITERATURE THE SCHEME OF STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT I. Speak of the author in brief. - the facts of his biography relevant for his creative activities; - the epoch (historical and social background); - the literary trend he belongs to; - the main literary pieces (works); II. Give a summary of the extract (or the story) under consideration (the gist‚ the content of the story in a nutshell). III. State the problem raised (tackled) by the author
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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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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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The short story “Cat in the Rain” was written by E. Hemingway in the 1920s. E. Hemingway‚ the author‚ is one of the most famous American novelists‚ short-story writers and essayists‚ whose deceptively simple prose style has influenced a wide range of writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. "Cat in the Rain" is one of his famous short stories‚ depicting an American couple that spends their holiday in an Italian hotel. The woman in the story sees a cat stranded under a table
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Review on Cat in The Rain of Ernest Hemingway A couple of Americans traveled in Italy. At the hotel‚ on a raining day‚ the wife found a cat crouched in the rain and wanted to take the cat and possess it. She went out and searched the cat in the rain‚ to find it had gone. Coming back‚ she told her husband her wish to change her hair style and was turned down by her husband. After her several other wishes were also turned down‚ a waitress of the hotel knocked the door‚ at the demand of the hotel owner
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Appreciation for The Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway. by Maria Minakova Hemingway’s style of writing is solidly bound with the image of an iceberg where only a small part of the message is on the surface whilst the greater part of the meaning is hidden “underneath the water”. The short story “The Cat in the Rain” is a brilliant example of this technique‚ so masterly employed by Hemingway in his works. While the story about a couple spending holidays in a hotel and a woman wanting
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An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s "Cat in The Rain" In his frictional story‚ “Cat in the Rain‚” Ernest Hemingway sets the scene for his fiction in a hotel room in Italy on a rainy day. 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 more
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