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The Indiffence reflected in “Cat in the Rain” 默认分类 2009-12-27 20:06:14 阅读162 评论0 字号：大中小 订阅 The Indiffence reflected in “Cat in the Rain” I.Introduction Cat in the Rain is written by Ernest Hemingway and it describes an American couple who live in a hotel, and the wife sees a cat in the rain, and wants to get it inside but fails in catching it. When she goes back to her room, she gossips all the time and makes her husband upsetting. Eventually, the owner of the hotel asks the maid to send the cat to her. It seems that there is no obvious and clear theme in this short story. But if we consider this question according to the background of the story---after the first world in Europe, and the major thought and feeling of Hemingway at that time. We can realize that the theme of this short story is expressing the indifference of people after the First World War. II.Literature Review III.Theory For this short story, I choose Iceberg theory to analysis. Iceberg theory started by American writer Hemingway as follows:＂if a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that will have a feeing of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action.＂It means that the author just portrays the part of iceberg which appear above water, and let readers to imagine the rest beneath water in terms of the text, and makes the text more concise and brief. IV.Textual analysis 1.1 The Background of the Short Story From the text have described:＂Italian came from a long way off to look up the war monument ,it was made of bronze and glistened in the rain.＂we can be aware that the story happens after the first world war and provides us with the very important specific phenomenon to understand this story. 1.2 The loneliness of the American couple in a Foreign Country As the text