Through the consciousness of the protagonist, Roquentin, Sartre exhibited the character of the existence of human beings, i. e. the accidentalism, the universalism and the property of time.
In chapter thirteen, Aristotle outlines an ideal of the central character of tragedy, the so-called tragic hero, and identifies the source of the character's downfall with something called hamartia.
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.