cat in the rain

《雨中的猫》的隐喻手法赏析以海明威的作品《雨中的猫》为研究对象，以作品中隐喻的运用分析为切入点，从谋篇布局、环境描写和人物形象刻画等三个层面对作品进行了深入剖析和探讨。

通过分析，可以更好地体会一代文豪是如何在其作品中运用隐喻手法来达到艺术效果的。

标签：雨中的猫；隐喻；运用；赏析作为一种艺术符号，隐喻具有暗示性，暗示性的产生和这种艺术符号形态的构建模式紧密相关。

主体没有明确表达其内在情感，而是故意隐藏了自己的内心世界，遮蔽了心灵。

他/她吝啬地取出一点充满想象空间的意象，让接受主体也就是读者自己体会并理解。

而艺术之所以存在生命的根本，就是她将虚幻的意义与具体的形象融合在了一起，而这种新的结合，一定会引发人们本能的好奇与冲动，去体会主体的快乐、忧伤、希望和绝望。

而读者的理解一定是建立在自身的生活与情感经历之上的，所以当人们重塑艺术主体的情感与意义时，就会产生不同的理解版本。

也就是说，时代的变迁，读者的变化，背景的差异，会使人们不断创造出带有自身影子的新的意义，而新意义产生的过程便使得隐喻这种艺术符号有了永恒的艺术价值。

《雨中的猫》（Cat in the Rain）是海明威于1923年创作的一篇以女性为主体的短篇小说佳作，后收录在《在我们的时代里》。

它讲述了一对美国年轻夫妇到意大利旅游，因外面下着雨而只能待在旅馆里的小故事。

故事短小而简单，中心内容是讲述这对夫妇百无聊赖之时，太太不经意中发现有只猫蜷缩在窗外的桌子底下躲雨，于是心生怜悯，想要把它抱到楼上来，出去寻猫的时候，猫却不见了，回到旅馆房间向丈夫抱怨。

正在这时，旅店老板差使女侍把一只大玳瑁猫送到了她面前，故事到此戛然而止。

《雨中的猫》在谋篇布局、环境描写、人物刻画等各个层面，处处充满象征和隐喻。

一、谋篇布局海明威在生活中就是个爱猫之人，所以在他的作品中，猫和女人总是存在着或内或外的联系。

这一点在不少其他作者的作品中也不难发现，文人倾向于把猫和女人联系在一起，或许他们认为猫与女人共享着一种阴柔的气质。

Cat in the Rain – Critique/SummarySummary:The story “Cat in the Rain” written by Ernest Hemingway is about a couple that stay in Italy. The woman in the story sees a cat abandoned outside in the rain under a table and wants to get him and bring him into her hotel room. When she finally convinces her husband to let her go out and get him, it is gone. She returns to the room with out a cat and her husband is still propped up on a pillow reading his book. He insists she lay down and read a book, when she starts talking about how much she wants a cat, how she wants it to be sitting in her lap as she brushes her hair. A short while later one of the hotel workers who helped her try to find the cat the first time had discovered his presence and bought him to her.Critique:The story “Cat in the Rain” talks about a cat stuck outside in the rain, but I don’t think that this is what Hemingway meant when he wrote this story. I like how Hemingway started the story off with describing the setting, where the two Americans were and how they were the only ones stopping in to this particular hotel. It gives the reader something to picture right off the bat. I think that Hemingway could have described the characters in more detail to get a better understanding of them. Also I think the in-depth description of the hotel wasn’t necessary I would of liked to see the description put in to the characters more. I really liked the way Hemingway’s character the American Woman acted because it felt very real to something in real life. The way Hemingway portrayed the woman at first was more along the lines of a nagging wife, but when she goes to the window to see the cat her persona changes, I liked this because it made me get into her head and see how she was feeling Hemingway started in a unique way because I very rarely see a story start like this, and he pulled it off very well. The description of the location and setting pulled me right into the story, I liked this because it kept me interested and wanting to keep reading. I think the title that was given to the wife as the “American Wife” lacks individuality and has no special meaning, signifying that she is just a mere American Woman and nothing else. I think that the title Hemingway chose was to portray that the wife felt that she was condoned to George her husband and that he never really paid much attention to her. This lack of attention makes her feel that she does not have much freedom to express herself and keeps much of her feelings inside. She definitely feels the restraint that George has put on her, and in order to please him, she attempts to make herself compact just like the cat.I think this is why Hemingway makes it seem that she is so attached and drawn to helping the cat out of the rain.。

Sentiment after Reading《Cat in the Rain》《Cat in the Rain》is Hemingway's short story which reflects the confliction between both sexes.It tells a simple story: An American couple saw a cat trapped by the rain in a hotel in Italy. The woman wanted to rescue that cat, but it dispeared when she go out to find it.Finally, the host in hotel give the woman a cat. This short story’plot is very simple, but the implication is very rich, it was fully embodyed the Hemingway "iceberg" principle of the novel.However,just as the author say“About each part of the show, and below the surface, you may be omitted to you know anything, it will only make your tip.”And this is turely what I feel about the story.The first section of the novel describes the background to create a deep gloomy atmosphere: The American lady found a cat in the rain＂Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.＂Seeing the situation, she felt symphthy for this cat sudenly, and she wanted to catch it and put it in her shield. After telling her decision to her husband about going outside and catch the cat,the husband was just unconcerned .The husband maybe cared for her wife,but that’s just not enough. He didn’t take any action in fact. There may be two reasons why the woman wang to get and protect the cat.Firstly,she cares for and love herself,to some degree,to protect the cat may just mean to protect herself or her dignity. She rescued herself by rescuing thecat..Secondly,the action is the manifest of her ability. She had thirst for the protection of the cat to prove that she could dominate something in her way which could give her a sense of achievement,.She eagered to change a lot of thing her haircut,outlook and some detail things, what’ most important, her status in the marriage. Very opposite to her husband,the owner of the hotel was so different that the woman was into him.Thehotel-keeper had sent her with the maid holding the umbrella over her when she wanted to get out,not her husband who did this..As the author told us, the wife liked him. “She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel- keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.”Well,“ shut up and get something to read”is the only reaction of the husband when he heard that his wife want to own so many thingsf rom him and she’s not quite content with her current situation.There was still no action even though he knew all.The husband reacted extremely indifferent and male chauvinism.The great difference between her huaband and the hotel keeper made her feel that she just fall down from the cloud of happiness to the abyss of loneliness.This kind of contrast really play a great part in the way that the woman want to change herself and the life. Shs became eager for freedom,happiness,and dignity.Well,at last,the hotel-keeper had sent her with the maid holding a bigtortoise-shell cat pressed tight against her in the doorway.It’s obvious that it was not the first cat.However,the story came to an end suddenly,which meaned that the author wanted to give us hope that the wife may get her own happiness,freedom and dignity by choosing another man ,that is to say,another way.。

Ernest Hemingway – ‘Cat in the Rain’There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden.In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea.Italians came from a long way off to look up at the war monument. It was made of bronze and glistened in the rain. It was raining. The rain dripped from the palm trees. Water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain. The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument. Across the square in the doorway of the café a waiter stood looking out at the empty square.The American wife stood at the window looking out. Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.‘I’m going down and get that kitty,’ the American wife said.‘I’ll do it,’ her husband offered from the bed.‘No, I’ll get it. The poor kitty out trying to keep dry under a table.’The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows at the foot of the bed.‘Don’t get wet,’ he said.The wife went downstairs and the hotel owner stood up and bowed to her as she passed the office. His desk was at the far end of the office. He was an old man and very tall.‘Il piove,1’the wife said. She liked the hotel-keeper.‘Si, Si, Signora, brutto tempo2. It is very bad weather.’He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.Liking him she opened the door and looked out. It was raining harder. A man in a rubber cape was crossing the empty square to the café. The cat would be around to the right. Perhaps she could go along under the eaves. As she stood in the doorway an umbrella opened behind her. It was the maid who looked after their room.‘You must not get wet,’ she smiled, speaking Italian. Of course, the hotel-keeper had sent her.With the maid holding the umbrella over her, she walked along the gravel path until she was under their window. The table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She was suddenly disappointed. The maid looked up at her.‘Ha perduto qualque cosa, Signora?’3‘There was a cat,’ said the American girl.‘A cat?’‘Si, il gatto.’‘A cat?’ the maid laughed. ‘A cat in the rain?’‘Yes, –’ she said, ‘under the table.’ Then, ‘Oh, I wanted it so much. I wanted a kitty.’When she talked English the maid’s face tightened.‘Come, Signora,’ she said. ‘We must get back inside. You will be wet.’‘I suppose so,’ said the American girl.1‘It’s raining.’2‘Yes, yes Madam. Awful weather.’3‘Have you lost something, Madam?’They went back along the gravel path and passed in the door. The maid stayed outside to close the umbrella. As the American girl passed the office, the padrone bowed from his desk. Something felt very small and tight inside the girl. The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance. She went on up the stairs. She opened the door of the room. George was on the bed, reading.‘Did you get the cat?’ he asked, putting the book down.‘It was gone.’‘Wonder where it went to,’ he said, resting his eyes from reading.She sat down on the bed.‘I wanted it so much,’ she said. ‘I don’t know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn’t any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.’George was reading again.She went over and sat in front of the mirror of the dressing table looking at herself with the hand glass. She studied her profile, first one side and then the other. Then she studied the back of her head and her neck.‘Don’t you think it would be a good idea if I let my hair grow out?’ she asked, looking at her profile again.George looked up and saw the back of her neck, clipped close like a boy’s.‘I like it the way it is.’‘I get so tired of it,’ she said. ‘I get so tired of looking like a boy.’George shifted his position in the bed. He hadn’t looked away from her since she started to speak.‘You look pretty darn nice,’ he said.She laid the mirror down on the dresser and went over to the window and looked out. It was getting dark.‘I want to pull my hair back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel,’ she said. ‘I want to have a kitty to sit on my lap and purr when I stroke her.’‘Yeah?’ George said from the bed.‘And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes.’‘Oh, shut up and get something to read,’ George said. He was reading again.His wife was looking out of the window. It was quite dark now and still raining in the palm trees.‘Anyway, I want a cat,’ she said, ‘I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I can’t have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat.’George was not listening. He was reading his book. His wife looked out of the window where the light had come on in the square.Someone knocked at the door.‘Avanti,’ George said. He looked up from his book.In the doorway stood the maid. She held a big tortoiseshell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body.‘Excuse me,’ she said, ‘the padrone asked me to bring this for the Signora.’。

“Cat in the rain” is a famous short story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1925. It is an illustration of Hemingway’s style following “theory of an iceberg”. In this story, the writer used the metaphor – lonely cat standing under the rain to convey to the readers that the relationship of the American couple is in crisis and isolation. They are unhappy couple.The title of the short story does not give us a specific picture the story refers to at first because in fact the content of the story is not about a c at and rain. However, the image “rain” implies coldness, dreariness. Normally as we know, in Hemingway’s works “rain” is served as a potent symbol of the inevitable disintegration of happiness in life. Especially in the context of rain, there is a cat, which seems lonely. Thus, the title half- opens the readers sadness, loneliness.Opening the tale, the writer spent a space to describe the Italian hotel where the American couple spent their holiday. It seems a romantic vacation. At the beginning of the story, the scenery is so splendid. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea, also public garden. There were palm trees as well. However, it was a vacation in the rain, bad weather. Rain is repeated once again creating a dreary atmosphere. Furthermore, war monument in the rain, the sea breaking in the regular waves, the gone motor-cars and no one at the square let us understand a crisis, loneliness here. Partly we guess an abnormality was happening in the vacation of the couple or in their relationship.Following the next paragraphs, the readers understand more about two Americans- a wife and a husband. We can realize that the cat is a topic to be spoken about during their conservation although they were a couple on vacation. At seeing the wild cat in the rain, a desire of possession arises in the wife’s heart, and even she herself can’t explain why she wants the cat so much. Such kind of desire reveals the pursuit of freedom and independence of the wife. However, Hemingway didn’t give a clear ending that whether the wife receive the domestic cat or not. In my point of view, because the wife doesn’t realize her inside feeling, her confusion, or rather conflict between freedom and tradition is showed quiet clearly.Besides the cats, the theme disclosed by male figures, the husband and the hotel keeper in the story can be found through analyzing their attitude to the wife. Concerning the conversations between the wife and the husband, the response of the husband, c ompared with his wife’s emotional and long dialogues, is shorter but stronger. Take the husband’s reaction to the wife at the beginning, what he says is, “I’ll get it”, “Don’t get wet” or “shut up and get something to read”at the final. All of these dialogues are seemed more like an order tha n a suggestion.The comparison between male and female, wild cat and domestic cat in “Cat in the Rain”, shows the superiority of male and inferiority of female. Moreover, the unconscious struggle of choosing freedom and independence or the woman traditional situation in the wife’s heart is showed as the more important theme which Hemingway wanted to tell us.。

原文Cat in the rain1There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel.They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room.Their room was on the second floor facing the sea.It also faced the public garden and the war monument.There were big palms and green benches in the public garden.In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel.Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea.Italians came from a long way off to look up at the war monument.It was made of bronze and glistened in the rain.It was raining.The rain dripped from the palm trees.Water stood in pools on the gravel paths.The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain.The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument.Across the square in the doorway of the cafe a waiter stood looking out at the empty square.2The American wife stood at the window looking out.Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables.The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.翻译雨中的猫1只有两个美国人在酒店停留。

Cat in the Rain -------- Ernest HemingwayThere were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea. Italians came from a long way off to look up at the war monument. It was made of bronze and glistened in the rain. It was raining. The rain dripped from the palm trees. Water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain. The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument. Across the square in the doorway of the cafe a waiter stood looking out at the empty square.The American wife stood at the window looking out. Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on.'I'm going down and get that kitty,' the American wife said. 'I'll do it,' her husband offered from the bed.'No, I'll get it. The poor kitty out trying to keep dry under a table.'The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows at the foot of the bed.'Don't get wet,' he said.The wife went downstairs and the hotel owner stood up and bowed to her as she passed the office. His desk was at the far end of the office. He was an old man and very tall.'Il piove,' the wife said. She liked the hotel-keeper.'Si, si, Signora, brutto tempo. It is very bad weather.'He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel- keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.Liking him she opened the door and looked out. It was raining harder. A man in a rubber cape was crossing the empty square to the cafe. The cat would be around to the right. Perhaps she could go along under the eaves. As she behind her. It was the maid who looked after their room. 'You must not get wet,' she smiled, speaking Italian. Of course, the hotel-keeper had sent her. With the maid holding the umbrella over her, she walked along the gravel path until she was under their window. The table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She was suddenly disappointed. The maid looked up at her.'Ha perduto qualque cosa, Signora?''There was a cat,' said the American girl.'A cat?''Si, il gatto.''A cat?' the maid laughed. 'A cat in the rain?''Yea,' she said, 'under the table.' Then, 'Oh, I wanted it so much. I wanted a kitty.'When she talked English the maid's face tightened. 'Come, Signora,' she said. "We must get back inside. You will be wet.''I suppose so,' said the American girl.They went back along the gravel path and passed in the door. The maid stayed outside to close the umbrella.As the American girl passed the office, the padrone bowed from his desk. Something felt very small and tight inside the girl. The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance. She went on up the stairs. She opened the door of the room. George was on the bed, reading.'Did you get the cat?' he asked, putting the book down. 'It was gone.'"Wonder where it went to,' he said, resting his eyes from reading. She sat down on the bed.'I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.'George was reading again.She went over and sat in front of the mirror of the dressing table looking at herself with the handglass. She studied her profile, first one side and then the other. Then she studied the back of her head and her neck.'Don't you think it would be a good idea if I let my hair grow out?' she asked, looking at her profile again. George looked up and saw the back of her neck clipped close like a boy's.'I like it the way it is.''I get so tired of it,' she said. 'I get so tired of looking like a boy.'George shifted his position in the bed. He hadn't looked away from her since she stared to speak. 'You look pretty darn nice,' he said.She laid the mirror down on the dresser and went over to the window and looked out. It was getting dark.'I want to pull my hair back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel,' she said. ' I want to have a kitty to sit on my lap and purr when I stroke her.''Yeah?' George said from the bed.'And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes.''Oh, shut up and get something to read,' George said. He was reading again.His wife was looking out of the window. It was quite dark now and still raining in the palm trees. 'Anyway, I want a cat,' she said, 'I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I can't have long hair or any fun I can have a cat.'George was not listening. He was reading his book. His wife looked out of the window where the light had come on in the square.Someone knocked at the door.'Avanti,' George said. He looked up from his book. In the doorway stood the maid. She held a big tortoise-shell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body.'Excuse me,' she said, 'the padrone asked me to bring this for the Signora.'between the pursuit of freedom and independence, and being conditioned with the traditional woman situation. This notion is manifested by the feature of the characters, the conversations, and the reaction of the figure and so on. And the cats, which can be considered the main character, are the most impressive ones.The wild cat couching under the table in the heavy rain symbols the freedom and independence which the wife chases subconsciously. In the opposite, the domestic cat, which is sent by the hotel keeper, represents the traditional woman social status or situation—being protected, submissive and tamed. At seeing the wild cat in the rain, a desire of possession arises in the wife’s heart, and even she herself can’t explain why she wants the cat so much. Such kind of desire reveals the pursuit of freedom and i ndependence of the wife. However, Hemingway didn’t give a clear ending that whether the wife receive the domestic cat or not. In my point of view, because the wife doesn’t realize her inside feeling, her confusion, or rather conflict between freedom and tradition is showed quiet clearly.Besides the cats, the theme disclosed by male figures, the husband and the hotel keeper in the story can be found through analyzing their attitude to the wife. Concerning the conversations between the wife and the husba nd, the response of the husband, compared with his wife’s emotional and long dialogues, is shorter but stronger. Take the husband’s reaction to the wife at the beginning, what he says is, “I’ll get it”, “Don’t get wet” or “shut up and get something to read”at the final. All of these dialogues are seemed more like an order than a suggestion.As for the hotel keeper, every time the wife passing by him, a feeling of affection arises in the wife. Hemingway devoted several sentences to describe the reason why the wife likes the hotel keeper at the first time she passing. She likes the way he received complaints, his dignity, the way he serves her, and so on. And the delight of being serviced is also revealed. The second time she passing, after she finds the cat is missing:。

Cat in the rainThere were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea. Italians came from a long way off to look up at the war monument. It was made of bronze and glistened in the rain. It was raining. The rain dripped from the palm trees. Water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain. The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument. Across the square in the doorway of the cafe a waiter stood looking out at the empty square.呆在旅馆里的只有两个美国人。