Cat in the Rain- Analysis of the Wife's Charactiristic

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An Exploration of the Character of the American Wife in the ‘Cat in the Rain’ Ernest Hemingway was one of the writer during the last century who won most of the readers and appreciation. He was the represent of the Lost Generation and among all his short stories, the “Cat in the Rain” is one of the best and most worthy to analyse. It was wrote in Paris and was first published in 1925. The story was generally about an American couple were having vocation in Italy and the process of the wife looking for the cat in the rain. This essay would interpret the character of the American wife in depth, also investigate the association of her personality and her action and the environment. The American wife is a represent of the 1930s American wife in rich families. They lacked the sense of security, wanted to draw people’s attention, their feeling was not be valued, they desired love and regard. Due to the great expansion of America economic, the country became rich. Jazz music, dance, fashion were spread the whole U.S.A and people adapted the new life style quickly. “Jazz Age” brought wealth a chance to indulge in spirit, parties, women which anesthetize human feeling. Money brought benefit and the ignorance of individual emotion. People, especially women were all in a unaware need of love. In the text “Death” by Anderson, Elizabeth Willard had many sexual affairs after her marriage. However she was not satisfied, until her nearly dead time, the Doctor Reefy uttered “You dear! You lovely dear!”. This is what she desires, to be recognized as a “lovely dear”. She wants men to appreciated her as how she think she is like. (Wright 85) We could estimate that, although all these men were surrounding Elizabeth Willard, her heart was still in emptiness, for the reason n-t, the wife tried to draw the husband’s attention, but he was not listening to his wife carefully, he did not care
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