The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Analysis
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Anywhere, USA. That's where we are in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.Everything about the setting is pretty typical.A generic red house in a generic neighborhood inhabited by some pretty generic kid...
Tone
The narrator in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back is a total stress-case. And that, dear Shmoopers, means that the tone is just as stressed:Then we saw the cat wipeThe spot off the dress.Now the dress...
Writing Style
It rhymes. The end.Okay, not really. (About the end part—it actually does rhyme.) But almost all of Seuss's masterpieces rhyme, so what's particular about this one? Well, Shmoopers, we'd like to...
What's Up With the Title?
The Cat in the Hat.+ The Cat coming back= The Cat in the Hat Comes BackWe could read into this more—Communism will never be wiped out! The Cat is a Red Menace! The cycle is never ending!—but we...
What's Up With the Ending?
The chaos that the Cat in the Hat brought to the narrator and Sally's lives comes to a pretty abrupt end. Just as quickly as he arrived and wreaked havoc, the Cat in the Hat cleans things up and le...
Trivia
Your mind was blown when you found out the Cat in the Hat made an appearance in more than one book, right? Well, get ready for this: he's actually in six—count 'em, six—Seuss masterpieces. (Sou...