Cat in the Rain

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Analysis of the text. I liked the short story “Cat in the rain”, which was written by Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway is one of the greatest 20th-century American short-story writers and novelists. He was born in 1899. “Cat in the rain” is one of his marvelous 25 short stories. The title of story is intriguing and enigmatic, because when I had read it the first time, i was interested in story. The title expresses the mood and the spirit of story very definitely and, as a result of it, you started to feel melancholy and empathy. The story is devoted to mutual relations between young wife and old husband, between two different people. Husband was calm, indifferent and serious. He read a lot of book and thought that he is clever. His wife was tender and impulsive. She needed in his attention. She was bored. Incomprehension is basic problem of story. The idea of Hemingway’s “Cat in the rain” may be formulated as “Everyone wants to escape from daily routine”. In the setting of story the author told that the place, where personages were located, was one famous resort in Italy. The weather was rainy and, obviously, there was out of season. In this episode the author use word “rain” many a time to emphasize that it was long time and continuous. In the exposition it is told about American wife, who had seen the cat, which was crouched under a table. We can see in this episode that the main personages are American husband and wife. Then, wife wanted to help and to take that cat. Her husband did not pay attention to her wish and she went to rescue the cat in the rain alone. On the first floor of hotel she met a hotel-keeper, who paid attention to her, that is why she liked him. He sent the maid with umbrella to her. She thought that he cared for her. When she went to the table to take a cat, she found that the cat was gone. She was very upset. It was
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