Cat In The Rain Ernest Hemingway Analysis

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Cat in the Rain

The short story “Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway is about an American wife and her husband staying in a hotel in a small coastal Italian village. The wife sees a cat in the rain from the window and wants to go get in. When she steps outside the cat is gone and she goes back to her room. In the end, the hotel maid knocks on the door, holding the cat, and proceeds to give the wife the cat.

The short story seems very simple and to the point, but there it more to it, written between the lines. This is because of Hemingway’s’ style of writing. His style of writing is incredibly simple and easy to read. He describes things just the way they are – no more and no less. This can be seen in the beginning of the short story, where Hemingway begins the story in medias res and describes the setting: “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.” This is a very simple description, which anyone would be able to read and understand the first time they read it. It seems like his writing lacks emotion. Some might say it does, while others say it is the readers’ opportunity to build emotion on their own while reading.

For example the sentence: “The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in

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