‘Cat in the Rain’ There were only two Americans stopping at the hotel. They did not know any of the people they passed on the stairs on their way to and from their room. Their room was on the second floor facing the sea. It also faced the public garden and the war monument. There were big palms and green benches in the public garden. In the good weather there was always an artist with his easel. Artists liked the way the palms grew and the bright colors of the hotels facing the gardens and the sea. Italians came from a long way off to look up at the war monument. It was made of bronze and glistened in the rain. It was raining. The rain dripped from the palm trees. Water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain. The motor cars were gone from the square by the war monument. Across the square in the doorway of the café a waiter stood looking out at the empty square. The American wife stood at the window looking out. Outside right under their window a cat was crouched under one of the dripping green tables. The cat was trying to make herself so compact that she would not be dripped on. ‘I’m going down and get that kitty,’ the American wife said. ‘I’ll do it,’ her husband offered from the bed. ‘No, I’ll get it. The poor kitty out trying to keep dry under a table. ’The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows at the foot of the bed. ‘Don’t get wet,’ he said. The wife went downstairs and the hotel owner stood up and bowed to her as she passed the office. His desk was at the far end of the office. He was an old man and very tall. ‘Il piove,1’the wife said. She liked the hotel keeper. ‘Si, Si, Signora, brut to tempo2 . It is very bad weather.’ He stood behind his desk in the far end of the dim room. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands. Liking him she opened the door and looked out. It was raining harder. A man in a rubber cape was crossing the empty square to the café. The cat would be around to the right. Perhaps she could go along under the eaves. As she stood in the doorway an umbrella opened behind her. It was the maid who looked after their room. ‘You must not get wet,’ she smiled, speaking Italian. Of course, the hotelkeeper had sent her. With the maid holding the umbrella over her, she walked along the gravel path until she was under their window. The table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She was suddenly disappointed. The maid looked up at her. ‘Ha perduto qualque cosa, Signora?’‘There was a cat,’ said the American girl. ‘A cat?’ ‘Si, il gatto.’ ‘A cat?’ the maid laughed. ‘A cat in the rain?’ ‘Yes, –’ she said, ‘under the table.’ Then, ‘Oh, I wanted it so much. I wanted a kitty.’ When she talked English the maid’s face tightened. ‘Come, Signora,’ she said. ‘We must get back inside. You will be wet.’ ‘I suppose so,’ said the American girl. They went back along the gravel path and passed in the door. The maid stayed outside to close the umbrella. As the American girl passed the office, the padrone bowed from his desk. Something felt very small and tight inside the girl. The padrone made her feel very small and at the same time really important. She had a momentary feeling of being of supreme importance. She went on up the stairs. She opened the door of the room. George was on the bed, reading. ‘Did you get the cat?’ he asked, putting the book down. ‘It was gone.’ ‘Wonder where it went to,’ he said, resting his eyes from reading. She sat down on 1
the bed. ‘I wanted it so much,’ she said. ‘I don’t know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn’t any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.’ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 ‘It’s raining.’ 2 ‘Yes, yes, Madam, awful weather’ 3 ‘Have you lost something, Madam?’ هذا الكلم ترجمه للكلم اليطالي اللي ف القصه ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------George was reading again. She went over and sat in front of the mirror of the dressing table looking at herself with the hand glass. She studied her profile, first one side and then the other. Then she studied the back of her head and her neck. ‘Don’t you think it would be a good idea if I let my hair grow out?’ she asked, looking at her profile again. George looked up and saw the back of her neck, clipped close like a boy’s. ‘I like it the way it is.’ ‘I get so tired of it,’ she said. ‘I get so tired of looking like a boy.’ George shifted his position in the bed. He hadn’t looked away from her since she started to speak. ‘You look pretty darn nice,’ he said. She laid the mirror down on the dresser and went over to the window and looked out. It was getting dark. ‘I want to pull my hair back tight and smooth and make a big knot at the back that I can feel,’ she said. ‘I want to have a kitty to sit on my lap and purr when I stroke her.’ ‘Yeah?’ George said from the bed. ‘And I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes.’ ‘Oh, shut up and get something to read,’ George said. He was reading again. His wife was looking out of the window. It was quite dark now and still raining in the palm trees. ‘Anyway, I want a cat,’ she said, ‘I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I can’t have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat.’ George was not listening. He was reading his book. His wife looked out of the window where the light had come on in the square. Someone knocked at the door. ‘Avanti,’ George said. He looked up from his book. In the doorway stood the maid. She held a big tortoiseshell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body. ‘Excuse me,’ she said, ‘the padrone asked me to bring this for the Signora.’ فاتخذا، لم يتعرفا بأي احد من النزلء بعد، كان هناك امريكيان قد توقفا عند ذلك الفندق بمواجهة، عابرين الممر المؤدي الى غرفتهما في الطابق الثاني،طريقهما بين السللم العليا حيث اصطفت، والتي تطل ايضا على متنزه عمومي يتوسطه نصب تذكاري للحرب، البحر مع بضعة مقاعد طليت باللون الخضر، عدة نخلت. ، يرتاد في الجواء الصافية أحد الرسامين المكان بشكل مستمر مصطحبا حاملة لوحاته وألوان الفنادق، فقد كان الفنانون يعشقون الطريقة التي نبتت بها اشجار النخيل العالية جاء بعض الشخاص اليطاليين من مناطق نائية لمشاهدة.البراقة المقابلة للحدائق والبحر والتي كانت تنساب من خلل. النصب البرونزي الذي اصبح لمعا بعد تساقط قطرات المطر وتحت وابل، مكونة بركَا مائية ضحلة تجمعت بين الممرات المغطاة بالحصى، شجيرات النخل ثم يندفع،المطاراخذ البحر يتكسر في خط طويل متعرج وهو ينزلق عائدا نحو الشاطئ . عاليا في خط طولي متكسر آخر متراجعا بعد اشتداد غزارتها توقف احد الُنّدل عند المدخل، وفي المقهى عبر الساحة، غادرت العربات ساحة النصب . حيث المكان الخالي، مصوبا نظراته الى الخارج تشاهد، وقفت زوجة المريكي عند شباكها 2
ف الخارج اسفل الشباك ،عند اليمين جلست قطة صغيرة ،انكمشت مرتجفة تحت احدى الموائد الخضرالمبللة ،وهي تحاول ان لتصيبها قطرات المطر عند نزولها ،قالت الزوجة : انا ذاهبة الى السفل لجلب تلك القطه .عرض عليها زوجها وهو في فراشه: انا سأذهب .. كل ،سوف أأتي أنا بها ،المسكينة تحاول جاهدة تفادي البلل تحت المنضدة .عاد الزوج الى القراءة ،مستندا على وسادتين عند قدمي السرير ،قال لها: حاذري ان تبتلي .نزلت الزوجة الى الطابق الول ،فتوقف صاحب الفندق العجوز الطويل وحياها بأنحناءة حين مرت بمكتبه ،وقد كانت منضدته الى الركن البعيد من غرفة الدارة ،احبت المرأة شكله ، قالت - :مساء الخير . نعم ،نعم سنيورة ،ياله من جو فظيع .وبقي في مكانه عند الركن البعيد القليل الضوء من الغرفة ،بدت الزوجة معجبة به ،اعجبتها طريقته وجديته القاتلة حينما يواجه شكوى من احد ما ،اعجبها وقاره واسلوبه في تقديمه الخدمات اليها ،احترامه لمركزه في الدارة، كماأحبت شيخوخته ،صرامة وجهه ،ويديه الضخمتين .شعرت نحوه بميل كبير. ذهبت لفتح الباب وجالت ببصرها خارجا ،كانت تمطر بشدة ،عبر رجل الساحة الفارغة امامها متجها صوب المقهى وقد أرتدى واقيا من المطر ،ستكون القطة قد اتخذت لها مكانا عند الجانب اليمن ،و ربما قد ابتعدت قليل حيث الرواق ،وبينما هي متوقفة عند المدخل ُ ،فتحت مظلة الى جوارها من قبل خادمة الغرف ) ،علينا ان لندع البلل يصيبك( ابتسمت وهي تكلمها باليطالية ،ارسلها مدير الفندق بالطبع ،بدأت في السير على الممر الحصوي ،تتبعها الخادمة باسطة المظلة فوقها ،حتى وصلت الى المكان الذي يقع اسفل شباكها تماما،وجدت الطاولة في موضعها خضراء لمعة وقد غسلها المطر ،غير ان القطة لم تعد هناك. اصيبت فجأة بالخذلن فنظرت اليها الخادمة متسائلة : سنيورة ،هل فقدت شيئا ؟اجابت الفتاة المريكية : كانت هنا قطة .قطة ؟ نعم قطة . قطة ) ضحكت الخادمة ( قطة في المطر .. نعم ) قالت ( اسفل الطاولة،بعد ذلك ،اوه ،انا اريدها،اريد تلك القطه من كل قلبي .اقطبت ملمح الخادمة حين حدثتها بالنكليزية قالت: سنيورة ،تعالي ..علينا ان نعود الى الداخل ،سوف تبتلين .اجابتها الفتاة المريكية : اظن ذلك .سارتا عائدتين عبر ممر الحصى ،دخلت المرأة خلل الباب بينما تأخرت الخادمة خارجا ،كي تغلق المظلة ،حالما عبرت الفتاة المريكية مكتب الفندق بادرها المدير بانحناءة اخرى من خلف منضدته ،لزمها شعور بالنقباض ،واحساس داخلي بالغ الصغر ،فقد جعلتها انحناءة الرجل في تلك اللحظة تزداد ضئالة ولكنها في الوقت نفسه اشعرتها بأهميتها ومكانتها الحقيقية ،كان ذلك اشبه بشعور اللحظه واحساس لمتناه بالوجود والرفعة والسمو .صعدت السلم ،وحين فتحت باب الغرفة ،كان جورج ليزال مستلقيا على الفراش مستمرا في قراءته . هل جلبت القطة ؟ سألها وهو يضع الكتاب جانبا ، لقد ذهبت .راح يفرك عينيه لراحتهما من القراءة ،تساءل - :عجبا ،اين تراها ذهبت ؟ جلست هي على حافة الفراش ،قالت : كنت راغبة كثيرا بالحتفاظ بها ،لأعرف لماذا أردتها بهذا الصرار ،اردت تلك القطيطةالمسكينة .،أتراه شيئا مسرا وجود قطيطة بائسة تحت المطار؟ عاد جورج الى المطالعة ،فانتقلت هي الى الجلوس امام منضدة مرآة الزينة، وطفقت تنظر نفسها في مرآة يد صغيرة ،تطلعت تدرس وجهها من الجانب ، 3
بدأت اول بأحد الجوانب ،ثم انتقلت الى الجانب الخر ،بعد ذلك أخذت تتطلع بعناية الى مؤخرة رأسها وعنقها . هل تعتقد انها فكرة جيدة لو جعلت شعري ينمو اطول ؟تساءلت وهي تنظر الى بروفيل وجهها ثانية .التفت جورج واخذ يتملى منظر عنقها من الخلف ،شعرها المقصوص مثل الولد . احبه على هذه الحال .قالت - :لقد تعبت من ذلك ،تعبت من كوني ابدو اشبه بصبي. اعتدل جورج مغيرا وضعيته في الفراش ،فلم يعد لمشاهدتها منذ ان ابتدأت بمحادثته .قال : ولكنك تبدين جميلة ولطيفةهكذا،سحقا .أعادت المرآة الى الجرارة ،وقامت متجهة نحو الشباك ،تنظر بعيدا وقد خيم خارج الغرفة الظلم .قالت : ارغب ان ادفع شعري الى الخلف وأشده بنعومة ،اعمل منه عقدة كبيرة تنحدر الى الظهر ،تلك هي مشاعري ،ارغب بامتلك قطة صغيرة اجلسها في حجري ،وتقر كلما ربتت فوق رأسها يداي . تمتم جورج وهو على فراشه : نعم ...كما أرغب تناول طعامي على مائدة بالواني الفضية خاصتي تحت ضوء الشموع ،ارغببمقدم الربيع ،وتمشيط شعري في الهواء امام المرآة ،اريد قطة وبعض الفساتين الجديدة . اوه ،اصمتي ،وخذي لك شيئا تقرأينه ..قال جورج ذلك وتابع قراءته ثانية ،.فعادت هي تحدق خارجا من خلل النافذة ،كان الظلم قد ازداد حلكة ومازال المطر يتساقط باستمرار فوق الشجر: على اية حال ،اريد قطة ،اريد قطة ،اريدها الن ،اذا لم يكن بوسعي ان احيا بسرور وانامتلك شعرا طويل ،فبامكاني الحصول على قطة صغيرة . لم يكن جورج مصغيا لكلمها وقد انشغل تماما بمطالعة كتابه ،فبقيت زوجته ترقب النافذة وتتطلع الى النوار التي بدأت تغمر الساحة .بينما كان احدهم يطرق الباب . ادخل ..قال جورج ناظرا من فوق كتابه .كانت الخادمة تقف في الممر عند الباب ،ممسكة بقطة شعرها بلون درع السلحفاة ،تخلصت القطة من قبضتها بعناد وراحت تتأرجح عكس التجاه محاولة النزول : -عفوا ...طلب مني المدير احضارها من اجل السنيورة
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اسئلة عن قصة ?cat in the rain السئله راح تساعدكم ع تذكر وفهم الحداث بشكل افضل ..وان شاء ا انها تغطي المطلوب مننا ف النهائي ?"What is the main theme Hemingway's story, "Cat in the Rain
The main theme could be "selfishness" Both the American wife and George display selfishness throughout the story. George continues to read and ignore his wife, while the American wife complains about all the things she does not have and wishes she did. And there are some themes to like" Loneliness, desiring to be with another person, "Unhappiness ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is the connection between the wife complaint and her . -?desire for a cat 4
when the wife saw a poor cat in the rain, she feels sorry for it because, she likes the cat, too hence her husband ignores her and her needs and just reads his book ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-?who is the best character in the " cat in the rain" short story the owner of the hotel, because even though he himself has no particular interest in the cat, he is considerate enough to send the maid to rescue .the cat and deliver it to his guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is the setting in Ernest Hemingway's "Cat In the Rain"? - ?how do we know Italy, because The wife, hotel keeper and maid speaks Italian -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ?What is the conflicts in the cat in the rain the actual conflict is the bad relationship between the American couple ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ?what the character in the cat in the rain There are only four characters: the husband, the wife, the owner of the hotel and a maid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ?What is the point of view in the cat in the rain The story is being told from the wife’s point of view by a narrator ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
?Mention Some of the symbols in cat of the rain The main symbol is the cat which often is the symbolic of the feminine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Who is the protagonist in this story - ؟
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Name several characteristics that the American wife .?liked about the inn keeper
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She liked the “deadly serious way he received any complaints, his dignity, his old, heavy face and big hands ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Who brought the woman an umbrella? Why ؟
The maid. Because the Hotel Keeper told her to ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Why does the maid tell her to come back inside ؟
She didn’t want the wife to get wet
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How does the padrone(inn keeper) make the American ؟ - ”wife “feel
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He made her feel very small and at the same time really important ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. -
Does her husband really feel bad for her having not ?found the cat? How do you know
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No, because continued to read his book as though he were ignoring his wife ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- What is the wife thinking about doing with her hair ؟
Letting it grow out ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
- Why does she want to let her hair grow ؟
She wants a change of life, something new ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ?What was her husband’s response ”.He says: “I like it the way it is ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
.Identify one example of how Hemingway used imagery - ؟
An example of the use of imagery is the way in which the weather is described ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you get the impression that the man and the wife were -* .happy? Explain why or why not We can feel the emptiness in the couple’s relationship through their . interactions with each other. The husband is reading, while the wife is looking out of the window or going out after the cat. At one point he tells the wife to “shut up” and get something “to read”. The marriage has disintegrated. Neither one listens to the other any longer --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
-? What are the plot in cat in the rain The plot centers around two Americans who are visiting Italy. It starts to rain and they go into a hotel in order to get out of the rain. In their hotel room, the wife saw a cat trying to protect itself from the rain . The woman decides that she wants the cat. She leaves her hotel room to 6
rescue the cat but she gets out and found out that the cat has gone . She returns to her room, and make a briefly conversation with her husband and then the maid appears with a cat for her. Whether this is the same cat the wife saw out in the rain is not known, but she has her cat any way --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
? Analyze the character of the American wife The “American wife” is the protagonist of the story. the "American wife" remains unnamed during the story. Throughout the story, the American wife becomes increasingly child like she refers to the "kitty" instead "cat " that would be expected from a grown woman ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
? analyze the character of Gorege the husband George, the protagonist’s husband, he is unaware of his wife’s needs. Through rest of the story he acts contemptuously towards his wife. When the American wife tells George what she wishes for her life, he responds .'.her to go "'shut up and get something to read ---------------------------------------------------------------------
?"What is The "Iceberg Theory Hemingway had a style of writing he referred to as the 'iceberg theory' in which written words in a story focus on surface facts, those easily seen. But behind the words is a more complete structure supporting the 'story. Others refer to this as the 'theory of omission .
لو جاء السوال بالشكل ذا حنكتب الجابه السابقه اما لو جاء بالشكل التالي
?What is the Iceberg Theory in A Cat in the Rain The cat is not just a cat in the story. it is represent the wife’s desire for a child " and it is represent an important aspect that the American wife ”. desires a stable home life as well as a "kitty " to set on her lap
ف حنجاوب بالطريقه هيدي
او ع.. وحفظ السئله المكتوبه.. المطلوب )فهم القصه بكل جوانبها ( وصيغوا بأسلوبكم.. القل افهموها
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