Stylistic Analysis "Cat in the Rain"
Анализ текста "Кошка под дождем" The sample of emotive prose which has been chosen for stylistic analysis is a short story "Cat in the rain" by Ernest Hemingway. It has been chosen because it is suggestive and contains a definite psychological implication. The story is interesting from the point of view of the author's approach to conveying the main idea to the mind of the reader. It is always implicit and remains unspoken. It is the reader himself who should find it behind the simple, at first sight, description of the events. Hemingway presents only sequence of outward actions and leaves the reader to imagine more than the words themselves can convey. This is characteristic of Hemingway's manner of writing he is famous for. The author was born in 1899 in Chicago. His family was rich and well provided. His father’s democratic views influenced Earnest greatly, but ignorance of bourgeouis society lighted up a protest in the writer. The young man early left his family’s home. Working as a reporter in the newspaper he came in touch with cruelty of American life and decided to go in the Army. Since this time his searches began. He saw lives of different circles, people of different nationalities. The author let us analyze a lot of characters and events. His literature was his own interests in hunting, love, fishing, military services and so on. Hemingway avoided conventional narration in his stories. H tried to make the reader understand his ideas by sketching in vivid scenes his own experience. The story "Cat in the rain" reflects the writer's approach to life in general. It is about an American couple who are spending their vacations in Italy. The writer leaves the surface comparatively bare: the meaning is plain and simple. A close study of the story for the purpose of examining its style involves a careful observation and a detailed description of the language phenomena at various levels. The text of the story is not homogeneous: it is interrupted with the