Cat in the Rain

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"Cat in the Rain" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was written by Hemingway in 1925 while living in France. It is about an American couple on vacation in Italy. While at their hotel the woman sees a cat and the story progresses from there. During the story it is made obvious that the couple's relationship is going sour. Hemingway uses the cat stuck in the rain, with nobody to care for, to symbolize the wife who longs to be loved. Hemingway claims in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald that the story was not about his marriage to his first wife, which was falling apart at the same time the story was written.

v • d • e Works by Ernest Hemingway Novels: The Torrents of Spring (1926)  · The Sun Also Rises (1926)  · A Farewell to Arms (1929)  · To Have and Have Not (1937)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)  · Across the River and into the Trees (1950)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1952)  · Islands in the Stream (1970)  · The Garden of Eden (1986)  · Under Kilimanjaro (2005) Short stories: "Big Two-Hearted River" (1924) • "Soldier's Home" (1925) • "Cat in the Rain" (1925) • "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926) • "A Canary for One" (1926) • "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927) • "The Killers" (1927) • "The Undefeated" (1927) • "A Day's Wait" (1933) • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936) • "The Capital of the World" (1936) • "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936) • "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (?) • "Adventures of a Young Man" (?) Short story collections: Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)  · In Our Time (1925)  · Men Without Women (1927)  · Winner Take Nothing (1933)  · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936)  · The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)  · The Essential Hemingway (1947)  · The Hemingway Reader (1953)  · The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)  · The Nick Adams Stories (1972)  · The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)  · The Collected Stories (1995) Plays: A Short Happy Life (1961)  · The Hemingway Hero (1967) Poetry: 88 Poems (1979) Non-fiction: Death in the Afternoon (1932)  · Green Hills of Africa (1935)  · Hemingway, The Wild Years (1962)  · A Moveable Feast (1964)  · By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)  · Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter (1970)  · Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981)  · The Dangerous Summer (1985)  · Dateline: Toronto (1985)  · True at First Light (1999 memoir)  · On Paris (On) (2008) Film adaptations: A Farewell to Arms (1932)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)  · To Have and Have Not (1944)  · The Killers (1946)  · The Macomber Affair (1947)  · The Breaking Point (1950)  · The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)  · The Killers (1956)  · The Sun Also Rises (1957)  · A Farewell to Arms (1957)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1958)  · Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)  · The Killers (1964)  · For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965)  · Islands in the Stream (1977)  · The Sun Also Rises (1984)  · In Love and War (1996)  · The Old Man and the Sea (1999) TV adaptations: A Farewell to Arms (1990)