- Cat and Dog originally best friends
- New experience tests their relationship
- their relationship was great during the easy seasons.
- When things get hard, their friendship falls apart
- Serpent convinces Cat that she is better off without Dog
- This character wants to bring about sin
- Supports the destruction of love and happiness. Wants to tear relationships apart the way he did with Adam/Eve and God.
- Dog doubts that they are better off apart, but does as Cat wants
- They swear never to cross paths again
- This seems dramatic. Cat treats it as a business agreement. Perhaps she is afraid that without the oath, neither would be strong enough to stay apart? particularly Dog?
- Cat already knows what she can do for the winter
- Dog must explore woods to find a place where he belongs
- it is always with a different species. Never fits the way he did with cat. Their strengths and weaknesses could have played off of each other.
- Dog helps Adam, Cat and Dog at the same house
- Cat asks Adam to turn out Dog.
- Dog wants to keep promise. Tries to leave, but Adam wants him there.
- Cat forever hates Dog for breaking the oath.
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| Photographer: Birhanb Source: Wikimedia |
Bibliography: The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog from Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa (1919).
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