Analysis on Cat in the Rain

Abstract

In Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway depicted a couple's stay in an Italian hotel on a rainy day. The wife saw a cat under the table outside and wanted to get her back, but when she got out, she found that the cat had gone. What the wife wanted is not simply the cat, the long hair, or the new clothes, but the care, the protection, the individuality and the attention. The wife did not want to be bounded by her husband, and tried to break such constraint unconsciously, tried to seek her own position and power in the man-dominating society, but all her endeavor ended in vain.