It was rain today, so I introduce story about rain.
“Cat in the rain” was so simple story as follows-two Americans stopping at the hotel, found a cat under their window that was crouched under one of the green tables. American’s wife wanted to get that kitty, went downstairs. Hotel owner and maid was there and the maid lent her an umbrella and followed her. As they walked along the gravel path, the green table was there, but the cat was gone, she felt disappointed. They went back to the hotel. The padrone bowed her, that made her the feelings of respect him, went upstairs, her husband on the bed, reading. She said the cat was gone, but she insisted want to the cat repeatedly, at the same time she also said other desire she had in the daily-“I want to pull my hair back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel and I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles and I want I to be spring……” Her husband said to her shut up and reading again. Even after, she continued to say “I want a cat I want a cat.” Her husband was not listening. Someone knocked at the door. The maid stood with a big tortoise-shell cat and said “the padrone asked me to bring this for the Signora.”
I felt interesting of this story at the point of the contrast between wife and husband. When she said selfishly it’s range from the cat to the candles, husband respond so coolly with reading book on the bed. In the last scene, the maid brought her a cat, but that cat might differ from the cat she saw under window. For the one, the last scene’s cat depicted all the way as a big tortoise-shell cat. Or from the first scene the people who saw a cat was only American’s wife, so it could be interpret, it was the illusion of her daily accustomed desire.
Bibliography
Ernest Hemingway, (1958), In our time; stories by Ernest Hemingway, New York: Scribner
(尾上政次・早川浩訳、『対訳ヘミングウェイ1』、南雲堂、1981年)
