Comparing Male and Female Relationships in Cat in The...

Comparing Male and Female Relationships in Cat in The Rain and Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway This relationship is examined closely in two short stories. The stories, Cat in The Rain, and Hills Like White Elephants, both show a man and a woman in what seems to be a quiet and passive moment. However in both stories, Hemingway carefully uses imagery and subtlety to convey to the reader that the relationship in the story is flawed, and is quite clearly dysfunctional. Both male characters in each story clearly have trouble understanding their women, and it is this inability to see them and what they want that Hemingway is addressing and criticizng. What, in both works, appears to be a quite and passive moment, is in reality a†¦show more content†¦In describing a line of hills, Hemingway writes, They look like white elephants, she said. Ive never seen one,, the man drank his beer. No, you wouldnt have(211). The same thing is being said here, neither man can see what his woman wants, but at least here the girl is acknowledging that blindness. Cat In The Rain though has som e moments that may appear subtle, but are very clear and direct as well. When the nameless American wife does indeed go down and try to retrieve the cat, she is met by the hotel manager, he asks her Ha perduato qualche cosa, Signora(130). Translated, he is asking he if She has lost something. Clearly, and as stated in class, Hemingway is indeed implying that she has lost something, specifically that intangible spark in a marriage that keeps things going. Her husband and her no longer relate, no longer communicate and that is what is causing all the grief and all the misery. In the same vain, Hills Like White Elephants, also implies the same thing. Hemingway writes, And we could have all this, she said. And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible. What did you say? I said we could have everything. We can have everything(213). In this excerpt, we can see the man has no clue as to what the woman is speaking of. He cant and wont see the white elephants or anyth ing else for that matter. He is simply to blindShow MoreRelatedStylistic Potential of the English Noun16714 Words   |  67 Pagesabout 200 cases that have been taken from the works that belong to the belles-lettres style (tales, poetry, short stories) written by such famous English and American writers of 18-20 centuries as Blake W., ColeridgeS.T., Munro H., Poe A.A., Hemingway E., Salinger J.D, etc. The aim of this chapter is to put the considered theory into practice showing the way the phenomena have been dealt with work out. The examples are organized also according the four nounal categories mentioned above in theRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 PagesCalifornia USA in 1993 with ISBN number 0-534-17688-7. When Wadsworth decided no longer to print the book, they returned their publishing rights to the original author, Bradley Dowden. The current version has been significantly revised. If you would like to suggest changes to the text, the author would appreciate your writing to him at dowden@csus.edu. iv Praise Comments on the earlier 1993 edition, published by Wadsworth Publishing Company, which is owned by Cengage Learning: There is