V5- Short Stories - Cat in the Rain

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V5 - Short Stories

Cat in the Rain

Today's Lesson

Sit according to the Seating Plan, please.

Short Stories: Cat in the Rain

Short Stories

Make sure you can answer the questions for each story 

in the reader as a preparation for the test 

Short Stories have the same elements as novels, but usually in a more compact form:

- Setting is usually confined to one place

- Limited number of characters

Cat in the Rain

We're going to read the short story together. 

I'll read it out loud for you. 

Afterwards you will get some questions to help analyse the text.

Cat in the Rain

“Cat in the Rain” is a short story about an American couple on vacation in Italy set in or around the couple's hotel, which faces the sea as well as the "public garden and the war monument". Throughout the story it rains, leaving the couple trapped in their hotel room.

Hemingway uses a "bare-bones style". He uses a minimum of words to say what he wants to say. He keeps it plain.

Why does the woman want the cat so much?

The cold and abandoned cat in the rain symbolizes the America wifes feelings of loneliness and need of rescuing from her inattentive husband. She wants to care for something like she wants to be cared for herself. 

What is the resemblance between her own situation and that of the cat?

The woman is trapped in an unhappy situation (inattentive husband) and so is the cat (rain)

They're both lost and lonely.

More questions

Lets discuss some of the other questions in the reader

Evaluation

Today you achieved the following:

you practised your reading skills

you analysed a short story

you started studying for the testweek

Well done!