Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Comparison of Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants and Cat In The Rai

Comparison of Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants and Cat In The rainwaterCat In The Rain is set in an Italian hotel where we meet an American tally. Outside a cat is trapped in the rain, and the wife wants tosave it. When she goes to get it, it is g unrivaled hardly the maid later bringsher one.The point of view in the drool is a third person narrator, but theperspective changes going from the wife to the husband and an bearing narrator who tells it like it is. The story is toldretrospectively in the past tense. The narrator is omniscient - thatis he knows all but judges nothing. On the introductory page it seems it isthe server objectively telling us what is going on whereas the secondpage is told by the wife and the last paragraphs of the third andfourth and last page in our story is told to us by George (thehusband).In his composition of Cat In The Rain, Hemingway frees the storyfrom narrative interpretation and leaves it up to us, his readers, tointerpret what is going on. The story seems oddly ambiguous in itsnarrative nature. This is app atomic number 18ntly due to the objective narrationand the no-judging attitude in its style.The people we meet in this story are the couple (George and thenameless wife), the padrone, the waiter, the maid and the rain coatman. We are not supplied with any information about the waiter (whoappears on the first page and seems to voice the first part of thestory), nor are we supplied with information on the rain coat man. Thepadrone is attentive and seems to be everything her husband is not.Putting the couple up against each other reveals something quite ainteresting and gives us the impression that they are total opposites.The wife symbolizes natu... ... nameless andthe man in Hills is nameless. I think the couples in the twostories are one and the same couple. Again the two stories are abouthaving someone to care for - in Cat she wants to have a baby, andin Hills I think her heed is about to come true. Jig is pre gnant,but the man (George?) does not seem at all excited and pleas with herin this story to have an abortion. He tells her its a simpleoperation but that she should not do it if she does not want to. Itis not hard to see that she does want to have the baby, and if youbelieve the two women are actually the same, you can surely understandwhy she wants her long-desired wish to come true. The themes in thetwo stories are also close to being the same - the lack of love andthe lack of communication. So - are the two stories an evolutionarytale about a couple? I do not doubt it.

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