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Critical Sources:
- Benson, Jackson J., ed. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975.
- Felty, Darren. "Spatial Confinement in Meningway's
'Cat in the Rain.'" Studies in Short Fiction 34.3 (1997):
363-70. Available on campus from EBSCOhost here.
- Hagopian, John V. "Symmetry in 'Cat in the Rain.'" College English 24 (December 1962): 220-22. Rpt. in Benson 230-32.
- Reynolds, Michael S., ed. Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
- Smith, Paul. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.
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Discussion starters
 Is the cat in the beginning the same as the cat in the end? Does it matter?
Hagopian says this story's characters "experience . . . a crisis involving the lack of fertility." What evidence is there in the story that the wife is infertile? Does it matter?
Smith tells us that in the first draft of the story, the wife was named Kitty. In what ways are the wife and the cat alike? And, why does Hemingway choose not to name the wife in the final version? cat
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