Cat in the Rain Hemingway
Cat in the Rain - HemingwayTo marry someone is to accept to live beside this loved person for the rest of the life. While time gives the opportunity to make the beloved happier everyday, it can also have disastrous consequences such as monotony. When a couple arrives at this sad situation, once will do anything to get a little excitements; whether by distracting his mind or worse, flirting with someone else. “Cat in the rain”, written by Ernest Hemingway, presents a couple who lost their last spark of love. I will show the loneliness of the woman, her attraction for another man, and try to interpret her desires.
From the beginning of the text, a lot of spatial boundaries are drawn. These boundaries ultimately evoke a claustrophobic sense of isolation, especially for the American wife. Being the only American couple in an Italian hotel, the couple is isolated on a cultural level. The second sentence shows also cultural isolation: “They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on the way to and from their room” (Hemingway 129). The woman standing at the window is also a sign of solitude. Instead of describing the relation between the American wife and her husband, Hemingway describes the view from the hotel’s room as if there was nothing to say about them or their mutual love. By proposing to get the kitty for his wife, the husband dos not intend to serve her, but more assumes his duty of husband and gentleman. He gives her a choice, signaling his opposite desire. She refuses his offer as if she didn’t expect anything from him anymore: “No, I’ll get it” (19). The husband doesn’t show any interest in what his wife is doing and comes up with a poor answer: “Don’t get wet” (Hemingway 22).
When life beside her husband tends to be boring, a wife sometimes flirts with other man. The hotel owner bowing to the American woman as she passes the office is a contrast with the husband. He stands up whereas the husband stays on the bed. The hotel owner is the introduction of a new male model, challenging the husband. She sees the man...
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