Analyse af Jim Brannins novelle 'The White Cat'

The short story “The white cat” is about the physically disabled woman Hattie, and It’s narrated by a third person narrator.

The story begins with Hattie, writing a letter about the cats she sees daily, on her back garden from her window. Hattie doesn’t know to whom she will send the letter to.

Hattie likes watching and eating with the cats from the window, since the cats reminds her of her gone family.

She lives in an apartment above her two grandnieces and their mother.

One-day Hattie cried and had a breakdown after she hears that the cats were taken by the RSPCA, because of her grandnieces request. After some time, Hattie pulls herself together, and decides to finish the letter and send it to her son Georgie.

Analytical essay of the short story “The white Cat”

The short story “The White cat” by Jim Brannin, was published in 2017.

The story is narrated by a third person narrator, who has insight into Hattie´s thoughts, feeling and follows her perspective. It can for example sees here “she knew she had to write to someone about the white cat and his family-but whom?” (p.1, l.4), and “she´d always preferred to stay in the background, let Johnny make the running at parties and his family gathering” (p.2, l.53-54). we can also say that the narrator´s knowledge is limited which we can see here “if you lose your job, a curtain parts sooner or later, and you´re back at work. But reach your so-called golden years, and you´ll be fortunate indeed to find a new romance” (p.1, l. 12-13)