Literary Devices In Cat In The Rain

The narrator is being completely controlled by her husband. The narrator's husband has told the her over

Woolf organizes her writing using various forms of syntax which contributes to the significance of the memory. The author’s portrayal of the setting is recounted with long, detailed sentences in order to illustrate its importance. The excitement of fishing is depicted as Woolf retells “Sometimes the lines would be handed to us; baited by gobbets cut from fish; and the line thrilled in one’s fingers as the boat tossed and shot through the water” (12-15). The author includes multiple semicolons not only to extend the sentence, but to also present similar ideas in a like structure. Notably, the author conveys tactile imagery to support the lengthy sentences with compelling details. The tossing of the boat and the touch of the fishing line embodies the exciting chaos the author had felt in the past. As a result, readers are then able to understand the specific attributes of Woolf’s memory that made the experience significant. Additionally, Woolf further develops the impact of her excitement as she describes “…and then- how can I convey the excitement? - there was a little leaping tug...” (15-17). Again, lengthy sentence structure helps to connect the images of her memory. The dashes communicate to readers a sense of the author’s internal thoughts, as if she was writing all that was on her mind. The dashes outline changes in the flow of the language, so that readers can note clearly defined shifts. They also symbolize the vividness of her memories, therefore the significance of the events in her situation. Unique from the majority of the sentences, Woolf includes declarative structure as she states “It was a perfect lesson” (25). The line stands out to the readers, amongst the other sentences, because of its length, which is intended to convey an idea directly. The

In this story, I have found that the themes that have stood out to me is gender and love. These themes have captured a major thematic idea by gender being discriminated against the women and the men. Gender is described as women being weaker than the men and men being the powerful ones. Love is described in this story as independent until it is found. Finding love is a part of life and everybody tries to find it but when it is found, it seems like you have lived you life to the fullest. These examples of the themes can be brought into the real world and can affect how people live their lives.

Throughout the beginning of the story, the wife continually references the things “John says” (844-5). That indicates to me that she is timid and perhaps frightened of him. “John says this,” and “John says that,” shows me that our narrator doesn’t feel permitted to have a thought that is her own. The story’s unilateral male, as well as unilateral female conversations are friendly and comfortable. However, male to female conversation in the writing is dominant, aggressive, assertive and sometimes dangerous. Female to male exchanges appear delicate, soft and understanding, always agreeing with the male perspective. I would consider women in this time period to be viewed as a pet or toy to the male, dominant figure in her life. The use of the words in this short is very important, and gives you the information to interpret the story. For instance, on page 845 it says, “It was a nursery first, then a playroom and gymnasium. I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children.” This discloses that our woman has post-partum depression. At the very least, she feels as if she is trapped or in an asylum within her own home. Perhaps this feeling of entrapment lends itself to driving her mad. It is no surprise that the woman feels trapped behind the pattern of the yellow wallpaper. Her days and nights are filled with constant repetition of the same nothingness. She is left with little to

The first theme I chose to write about is ‘love is blind’. This concept is important in the book because the author made sure to emphasize how much love can change lives. For example, Henry taking Keiko to the jazz club, even though they might get in trouble if they are caught; shows that Henry loves Keiko and to him it does not matter what might happen. In this case, his love is blind to the rules made to separate people.

At the beginning of the book, there is a part that starts the story and how it affects them later in their lives. When Raina races against her friends to go home, she trips and knocks out her two front teeth. This shows me the theme of how all things, and even things that are meant to be fun or enjoyable may have some weird/terrible consequences. It also shows us how the relationship between her and her friends in another scene in the beginning of the story is that I saw for the theme friendship was when Raina came back to school the day after her teeth were knocked out and people were wondering how was her and if she was okay. Then more people come over and then they ask her if she saw the blood and how much blood there was and if Raina cried. This shows that her friends do not care for her as much and would rather hear Raina’s story from a different side than her own. A theme that seems great for the both scenes that work together is most people

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the husband makes her use a rest cure to make her conform back to her role in society. He doesn’t allow her to do anything except sit in her room away from everyone and everything. The husband in “The Story of an Hour” doesn’t do anything specific other than creating a sense of holding his wife back, because he follows the rules of society and believes she should do the same. The husbands in each story don’t see anything wrong with the way society works and they continue to follow what they believe is the right thing to do. The husbands don’t pay attention to what their wives want or need.

In the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams, the text follows the struggles of Maggie who is in a one-sided marriage, dealing with an alcoholic husband and she’s fighting for his father’s inheritance all at the same time. Throughout the story, the characters use the title of the play, relating Maggie as a cat and she declares many times that she’s like a cat on a hot tin roof. The title and the idea of being a cat relate to Maggie’s character in the fact that she looks and behaves like a cat. Her similarities will be discussed further as we continue to dive into the world that Williams has created. Before the relationship between her situation and the title is dived into, her similarities between a cat will be assessed as her physical trait as well as her behavioral and psychological traits.

There are two opposing feelings inside her—the love for her husband and the compassion for her daughter. She wants to improve the living conditions of her family, but at the same time, she doesn’t want to upset the husband she loves. “However deep a resentment she might be forced to hold against her husband, she would never fail in sedulous attention to his wants.”

Within these three relationships, the power in the relationship was given to the woman. However, the 5th husband that she married differed from the first three. He wanted to have the power in the relationship and this resulted in a clash. Ultimately, the husband yelled at her, beat her, and left her deaf on one ear. This shows that if both the woman and man want control in the relationship, there will always be a problem. These marriages teach the reader that a marriage needs to have both powers in balance and cooperate together in order to succeed.

The narrator finds this cat to be out of place, and she uses the sight of this cat to take her text in a different direction. Losing her train of thought is an exercise in allowing the reader to experience what it might feel like to be a woman writer. Although the narrator goes on to make a valuable point about the atmosphere at her luncheon, she has lost her original point. Women, who so often lack a room of their own and the time to write, cannot compete against the men who are not forced to struggle for such basic necessities.

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The kitten in the short story Cat in the Rain represents the American woman’s desires. Throughout the story, the reader readily concludes that the marriage between George, the husband, and his wife, whose name is not given, is not a healthy relationship. Moreover, if one did not pick up on the corrupt nature of the marriage, the weather indicates a dark and gloomy mood, as it is raining. A small kitten protected by the top of a table catches the eye of the American wife, who exclaims numerous times that she “wants a kitty”. When George fails to acknowledge her desires, she insists that “It’s not any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain” (Hemingway ##). While the woman is talking about the kitten, on the surface, she is also referring to herself. The cat in the rain is the perfect representation of the

In the short story the "The Cat in the Rain" by Ernest Hemingway, the cat is a symbol around which the story revolves. As a central symbol, the cat reveals the psychological state and emotional desires of the American wife.

The bonds between men and women varied across the world in the 1920’s, with certain countries embracing women within society, yet other countries saw women as nothing more than homemakers. In his time in Europe, Ernest Hemingway witnessed the utmost respect men had towards women. Yet when Hemingway arrived back in America he saw the misogynistic attitudes towards women and their movement for suffrage. Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the rain” is the adventure of American women seeking suffrage in the 1920’s, alongside portraying the juxtaposition of treatment of American women to European women.