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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1 Halliday's Functional Grammar
2.2 Application of Functional Grammar in literary analysis
2.3 Previous studies of Ernest Hemingway and his work "Cat in the Rain"
3. A metafunctional analysis
3.1 Interpersonal analysis
3.1.1 Interrelationship between the wife and the husband
3.1.2 Interrelationship between the wife and the hotel-keeper
3.1.3 Interrelationship between the wife and the maid
3.2 Ideational analysis
3.2.1 Analysis of the fist part of"Cat in the Rain"
3.2.2 Analysis of the second part of"Cat in the Rain"
3.2.3 Analysis of the third part of"Cat in the Rain"
3.3 Textual analysis
3.3.1 Thematic structure
3.3.2 Cohesion
4. Conclusion
4.1 Major findings
4.2 Implications
4.3 Limitations and suggestions
Bibliography