Ernest Hemingway is considered to be the most influential writer in the twentieth century American literature

Ernest Hemingway is considered to be the most influential writer in the twentieth century American literature. He created memorable characters in his stories by drawing on real people and on real venues, events referred as literary symbols to enrich his characters’ characteristics, then transmit to the readers many meaning layers in understanding his stories which is obviously shown in Cat in the Rain that was first published in 1925 in the short story collection In Our Time. Hemingway took his personal life knowledge, his own connection and his typical observation to create various layers of his story’s content.
By employing various literary devices in this short story, Ernest Hemingway offered an artistic value of the content which makes readers understand the content at different levels and open implications after completing reading. Cat in the Rain is an outstanding sample of the author’s writing style from which readers first recognize the true connection between the couple; then draw prediction based on historical and social impact and explore the cause of characters’ actions in the story. The target of this study is to explode the images used as part of the short story and to decode these symbols as well as describe the different interpretations that they stand for.
Key words: American literature, Symbols, Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway, symbolism theory.