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Critical Sources:
- Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Scribner's, 1969. In campus library.
- Benson, Jackson J., ed. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Critical Essays. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1975.
- Johnston, Kenneth G. "Hemingway's 'Out of Season' and the Psychology of Errors." Literature and Psychology (November 1971): 41-46. Rpt. in Reynolds 227-34.
- 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.
- ---. "Some Misconceptions of 'Out of Season.' Reynolds 235-51.
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Discussion starters
In "Cat in the Rain," critics often focus on what is the problem between the husband and wife. What do you think is causing tension in this marriage?
Baker claims that this story (the first one written after the loss of his manuscripts) shows how Hemingway can develop "two intrinsically related truths simultaneously" (quoted in Johnston 227). What are these two truths? |
