1. Hemingway's Cat in the Rain expresses the meaning given to cats and the role change of cats to highlight the ups and downs of the empty marriage crisis, and incorporates Hemingway's unique "iceberg principle" into his writing. The style is presented to a wide range of readers.
2. Basic information
"Cat in the Rain" is a realistic short story by Hemingway and one of the few short stories that reflects female consciousness. The plot of the story is simple, the language is concise and wise, and it is narrated in the third person. In this novel, the heroine has no name, but the author gives her different titles in different situations. From the perspective of title, this work analyzes the desire and awakening of the heroine’s female subject consciousness in a patriarchal society. It perfectly embodies Hemingway's simple narrative style and implicit stylistic features.
3. Story introduction
The novel tells the story of an American couple living in a hotel in Italy. On a rainy afternoon, the bored wife saw a cat curled up under a green table to take shelter from the rain. The wife wanted to take the cat back, but the husband ignored it. The wife ran downstairs to look for the cat and was disappointed to find that the cat was gone.
Back in the room, her desire for a cat became stronger and she longed for many things that she did not have in real life... The husband's requests for his wife remained the same, and she ignored them. . Finally, the story ends abruptly when the hotel maid is entrusted by the shopkeeper to give a turtle-patterned tabby cat to the heroine, leaving the reader with their imagination.
In this short novel of just over 2,000 words, the author describes the four processes of the heroine rescuing the cat, finding the cat, asking for the cat, and getting the cat. In these processes, the author gave the heroine four different titles: "American Wife", "Her", "American Girl" and "Signora", and through the changes of these titles, it hinted at the heroine's relationship with her husband and the hotel owner. , the relationship with the hotel maid and her status, thus revealing the heroine's strong desire for freedom and independent female consciousness.