Cat in the Rain There is an archaic saying that states ‘A man in the sky, a woman on the ground,’ back in the 1800s in Korea. In the short story, Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway, he expresses his thoughts toward women and animals as the lower order of society through his point of view. The first part of the story tells that George has a control over his wife, and it also …showed first 75 words of 496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 496 total…square. These interpretations relate to Hemingway’s thoughts of him looking down on women. There is irony in this story, and although the world has changed, Hemingway’s point of view has not. The relationship between George and the American wife has an exclusive connection. By referring to the woman as “the American wife,” Hemingway shows the reader that he feels that women are inferior to men, and rank among animals on the evolutionary scale.