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

Comparison of Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants and Cat In The RainCat In The Rain is set in an Italian hotel where we meet an Americancouple. Outside a cat is trapped in the rain, and the wife wants tosave it. When she goes to get it, it is departed but the maid later bringsher one.The point of view in the trading floor is a third person narrator, but theperspective changes going from the wife to the keep up and anobjective 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 first scallywag it seems it isthe waiter 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 strangely ambiguous in itsnarrative nature. This is app arntly 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 contribution 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 former(a) reveals something quiteinteresting and gives us the impression that they are total opposites.The wife symbolizes natu... ... nameless andthe man in Hills is nameless. I reckon the couples in the dickensstories are one and the alike(p) couple. Again the two stories are abouthaving someone to care for - in Cat she wants to have a baby, andin Hills I think her wish is about to come true. Jig is pregnant,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.