It is assumed in this article that the concept of Fenggu is abstract but not concrete, illegible but not legible, extentive but not intentive, unifiable but not antinomic.
This would seem to place him in irreconcilable opposition to the paying playgoer, from whose point of view the longer the play, the more entertainment he gets for his money.
By continuously repeating the structure of binary opposition of joy and ennui, Cat in the Rain conveys that gender means the incommunicability between the American couple and the death of their love.