The short story “ A Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway might seem like a short story that really can’t produce any moral or ethical issues. Though our class discussions and readings, “A Cat in the Rain” runs parallel with the theory of ethical egoism. I believe that egoism is a part of life and that the theory stands true. Ethical egoism is a theory that states, "mortality requires nothing more of us than that we maximize our own personal good." (Holmes) In other words, it says that what is morally right for a person is what they consider "good" for themselves. Whatever brings us the greatest degree of good is right. The ethical egoist is not concerned with maximizing the good of the people as a whole. They simply say that we should only be concerned with what's good for ourselves. A quick interpretation of this theory would be that ethical egoists are greedy and that this theory is only promoting selfishness. There are four different types of egoism: psychological egoism, personal egoism, individual ethical ...
