Ernest Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain" is a portrait of a failing marriage. This idea is apparent on the surface. An American couple is staying in a foreign hotel and it is raining outside. The wife looks out and sees a cat that she wants to get. When she does make it outsid...

Character Analysis Frederic Henry Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver and a lieutenant ("tenente") in the Italian army, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. The focus of the novel revolves around his love with Catherine Barkley as well as his steady disillusionment with the war. ...

Patrick Burchett Mrs.Pae "Jig vs. the American" In Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' the girl (Jig) and the American man are discussing the possibility of Jig, getting an abortion. The reader feels that Hemingway uses "Hills" as a pregnant woman's stomach and the "White E...