The short story, "The Cat in the rain", is a typical Hemingway's story where he hides the messages and the real shape. Hemingway was a man who directly experienced some of the saddest wars of human history. He was even injured in a war-front, bringing back sexually handicaps. Hemingway decided to catch the post-war mood of disillusion and unsatisfaction by using his style, without the employment of many words. He wants to show the attitude …showed first 75 words of 851 total…

…showed last 75 words of 851 total…her life. When she returns to the hotel, again she meets the manager with the same masculinity, sex-appeal and pure face. He produces a sense of strange feeling in her. <Tab/>The woman's agitation and incomprehension are calmed thanks to the intrusion of the Italian servantess of the hotel who came in with a "big-tortoise shell cat.". Metaphorically the manager satisfied her dream and gave her what she hoped to have.