Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway (Analysis & Interpretation)

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  • @edsapp6678
    @edsapp66789 ай бұрын

    Seems to point out how easy it is to make a stranger happy but how hard it can be to make someone happy that we have been around more than half of our lives

  • @user-bp9of6fe7r

    @user-bp9of6fe7r

    5 ай бұрын

    Please explain more

  • @mikekimmel8544
    @mikekimmel85445 жыл бұрын

    This is terrific analysis. It's always been one of my favorite stories. I appreciate your recognizing it as one of the best of the 20th century. I agree with you too that it's definitely under-appreciated. Many thanks.

  • @meldauysal
    @meldauysal9 жыл бұрын

    Very clear and understandable analysis ,thank you!

  • @funkyfayy
    @funkyfayy10 жыл бұрын

    Thank you that was very enlightening!

  • @Josuedf5
    @Josuedf58 жыл бұрын

    thanks for uploading !!! very helpful

  • @markvis1237
    @markvis12379 жыл бұрын

    My interpretation of the wife's character in her relation to the cat has to do with the Jazz Era decade, where women were said to be presumably free and wilder than previous generation, open minded and emancipated and they were not. Morally, they had more freedom of speech and behaviour and they were socially integrated but they still were restricted by social laws against them. I consider the cat in the story as a reflection of what she pretends to be. She wants to come back to those times of freedom and not to depend anymore on her husband who does not really care about her and any of her worries or personal feelings. She hides herself behind her needs on materialistic possessions to fill that emptiness in her soul as a wife. The cat for me represents self-being and freedom because cats generally seem to have no owners. Sometimes, they just leave and abandon all that security they have at home and that's what cat represents to me in comparison to the wife's character. The cat does not neccesarily have to be physically there but it is just an illusion she has, a reflection of what she wants to become, something which is silent and she cannot tell. She cannot break up with her husband. She has no right to divorce or to ask for it as a woman and the cat is the silent part of how she would really expect to become and that she will never be by law. She wishes she could be a cat but she cannot. The cat in the rain and rain itself means her sadness because she will never be able to be like the cat.

  • @j.t.8848
    @j.t.88484 жыл бұрын

    The villain (if there has to be one) is existence itself.

  • @nae3701

    @nae3701

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Dominick Christian scam

  • @JamwithJamal
    @JamwithJamal8 жыл бұрын

    Amazing analysis! Thanks so much :)

  • @atmospherepress

    @atmospherepress

    8 жыл бұрын

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  • @ArnoWeiss
    @ArnoWeiss9 жыл бұрын

    great video thank you for the help :D

  • @hoangvietvu2661
    @hoangvietvu26614 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot, it helps me a great deal with my presentation tmr

  • @tomafa3596
    @tomafa35966 жыл бұрын

    thanks you for your help

  • @stefanosignore2298
    @stefanosignore229810 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @nouha14jb
    @nouha14jb9 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot !!!!

  • @piyumiwattuhewa8814
    @piyumiwattuhewa88145 жыл бұрын

    This video is cited for "Further Resources" for the Sri Lankan Advanced Level English Literature syllabus. I found this to be really useful

  • @kasunkavishka2976

    @kasunkavishka2976

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ahhaha... I found this there as well :D

  • @andrewfrancisco2327
    @andrewfrancisco23274 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @youssefazzi3066
    @youssefazzi30667 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @marya_shames
    @marya_shames9 ай бұрын

    thank you so much

  • @blacknight8539
    @blacknight85394 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations

  • @aliqwe598
    @aliqwe5987 жыл бұрын

    Thank you I have an exam soon ... and I have question /In Heming way's cat in the rain a big difference between the treatment of the American husband and the hotel owner to the American wife . Comment on this difference showing the effect of this treatment on the wife .

  • @waadalbadi9746
    @waadalbadi97465 жыл бұрын

    If you were in the position of the protagonist in the story of cat in the rain you have studied, would you act the way he/she does?Why?

  • @dbfbfjhjcmnfnfngndmgmfmdsk1602
    @dbfbfjhjcmnfnfngndmgmfmdsk16026 жыл бұрын

    I have Q.why hemingway use the word husband in first half of the story and then use the word George in the second half of the story?

  • @lmaooooooo2783

    @lmaooooooo2783

    3 жыл бұрын

    its to generalze the plague of all the American wives

  • @batoolhussain5925
    @batoolhussain59257 жыл бұрын

    thank u

  • @sbarr10
    @sbarr104 жыл бұрын

    I took the interpretation that the cat was somebody for the wife to love. The marriage was unfulfilling.

  • @Louizabiza
    @Louizabiza5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe she wants to do/have things in her life as he wants the paper. Maybe he does not appreciate her or talk to her and the doorman is hotter and/or more tender, nicer, with better energy. How can she have her eye on the ball of a relationship when the husband ignores her? She is not fetishizing; she is interested in another as the husband is interested in isolation, not a relationship. Balance is key. He wants a doormat.

  • @asieyousefnejad5279
    @asieyousefnejad52799 жыл бұрын

    is his happiness internal? Y does he resort to the book then?

  • @mdabdulhalimhimel6245
    @mdabdulhalimhimel62456 жыл бұрын

    Good analysis !! One thing also the cat may represent the sexual desire or attention from her husband .

  • @koukouchnihal6844
    @koukouchnihal68448 жыл бұрын

    hello everyone, i'm not a good listening one can you write what the professor said in the video please thank u in advance.

  • @zzt5282

    @zzt5282

    6 жыл бұрын

    El Rifi Nihal Do u still need the script of what he says? if yes, I can help you with that!

  • @georgestevens8851

    @georgestevens8851

    5 жыл бұрын

    Click on the CC button on the bottom and read the closed caption text as it scrolls along with the video.

  • @edsapp6678
    @edsapp66789 ай бұрын

    Everyone knows the rain is the villain of this story😂😂

  • @user-bp9of6fe7r
    @user-bp9of6fe7r5 ай бұрын

    Ithank he give the last chI think it gives him his last chance to change😂

  • @user-kr9nm8kb1o
    @user-kr9nm8kb1o7 ай бұрын

    Как говорил Фрейд, иногда сигара - это просто сигара. Двое американцев в Италии запреты плохой погодой и не могут общаться с другими. Жена хандрит и капризничает, а муж, как человек с более устойчивое психикой, спокойно лежит и читает. И на жену он обращает внимание, как мужчина, а не слушает её капризы. Образ хозяина - это образ сильного и далёкого отца, при котором можно чувствовать себя маленькой и значительной. Муж не так относится к своей жене, хотя бы потому, что он и не отец. И когда жена говорит о том, что хочет свой дом с накрытым столом, то муж отвечает фразой "заткнись". Видимо, он тоже раздражается. А когда служанка приносит кошку, то выясняется, что это другая кошка. То есть дело не в кошке, а в надвигающемся кризис е в паре. Хозяин, как отец поступил, а муж, как мужчина. И потом, как из коротких волос сделать длинные, как из гостиницы переместиться в свой дом? Ничего, завтра дождь пройдёт, выйдет солнце и всё наладится. Может быть.

  • @fatingalibi3025
    @fatingalibi30254 жыл бұрын

    Why Enres get on Oscar in their short story

  • @kerwinkineguia7845
    @kerwinkineguia78456 жыл бұрын

    My teacher asked why Hemingway did not name the wife.

  • @ghitael7643

    @ghitael7643

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because it represents all woman

  • @user-lf2fj2wj1i
    @user-lf2fj2wj1i4 жыл бұрын

    منو يشوف المقطع ب2020🙂😹🤞🏻

  • @scarynight999

    @scarynight999

    3 жыл бұрын

    ✌✌✌ ممكن اسألك ليش الزوجة ما ذكرو اسمها و الزوج عادي

  • @mohammedaliyousef9573

    @mohammedaliyousef9573

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@scarynight999 لأنها تعتبر مثال او تمثل المرأة الأمريكية

  • @meesalikeu
    @meesalikeu Жыл бұрын

    great review if you just read the story, but you get much closer and less ambigious to the storyline 'answer' if you will, when you look at hemingway's real life at the time as clearly this was based on him and his spouse hadley. this was the prime of their famous romantic paris years and indeed they did have a baby in 1923, nicknamed mr bumby, and they had a cat, f. puss. also, check out photos of them at this time and notice hadley's hair. ahh but too soon hemingway had an affair starting in 1925 and left his spouse hadley for this woman pauline in 1926. so its not really solving the da vinci code here to see where this story evolved from.

  • @jimkey920
    @jimkey9208 жыл бұрын

    There is no analysis needed. The story speaks for itself. The husband is engrossed in a book. I am sure it recounts a bit of personal experience of Papa.

  • @BakedBanana
    @BakedBanana2 жыл бұрын

    oh?

  • @blacknight8539
    @blacknight85394 жыл бұрын

    Thank you