In Cat In The Rain, Ernest Hamingway illustrates the problems that an American couple have, and symbolizes the loneliness and protection need of the American woman by a cat which she sees huddled under a dripping table outside their Paris hotel, and attempts to rescue . Her husband, George, spends the entire story curled up in bed reading a book, paying little attention to his wife. The American woman is struggling because this marriage can't meet …showed first 75 words of 410 total…

…showed last 75 words of 410 total…What the American wife is saying in the story is that she wants concrete, tactile, actual pleasures, and what she has is a husband reading in bed; the emotional distance between the couple is illustrated by her husband's remark, "Oh, shut up and get something to read." The American wife does not need something to read, she needs something to feel. What the author highlights in all story is this emotional distance between the couple.