Assignments for Analysis. 1. Make suppositions about the time and place where the scene is laid

1. Make suppositions about the time and place where the scene is laid. Quote the text to prove your point of view.

2. What is the effect achieved by Hemingway’s practice of “beginning from the middle”?

3. Speak on the characters of the American girl and her husband and the EMs and SDs used by the author to show their attitude towards each other.

4. Speak on the role of the hotel owner in the story and the devices used by Hemingway to describe him. Note the attitude of the American girl to the hotel owner & speak on the stylistic role of the word “small” in the macrocontext of the story: “The padrone made her feel very small…”

5. Comment on the stylistic function of barbarisms in the dialogues.

6. Dwell on the effect of implication achieved by the words “silver”, “candles”, “kitty” used in the macrocontext of the story.

7. Point out cases of repetition and state, what effect is achieved by this SD.

8. Discuss the title of the story. Comment on the stylistic use of the word “cat” throughout the story.

9. Summing up your impressions speak of the mood created in the story through the apt use of EMs and SDs.

10. Say if you find this story typical of Hemingway who followed the principle “It’s the implication that counts, the submerged part of the iceberg”. Try to perceive the “submerged parts of the iceberg”, i.e. the unspoken reference.

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