“Cat in the Rain” Review Essay Example

Griffin’s review of Ernest Hemingway’s work “Cat in the Rain” was an interesting one. His views about the work were not agreed upon by all authors. In his view both Hemingway and his wife were suffering from depression at the time. In spite of everything that Hemingway and his wife had tried in taking the necessary precautions to not get pregnant, she in fact did get pregnant.

Griffin’s view is that the rain in the story symbolized negative feelings or emotions of remorse or unhappiness. He goes on later to talk about how Hemingway knew that the female sense was touch and not sight, which apparently he knew from a very early age: Asked if he were afraid of the dark or of walking in the woods alone, E