Animal Farm, an introduction

After reading the first chapter of Animal Farm I can say that my favourite character is the cat. Since she didn’t appear much in the chapter, I couldn’t really see what type or relationship she had with the other animals, not much was described either. She seems to be comfortable enough with them, as she lies down in the middle of two animals freely and they say nothing about it. Her reaction to Old Major’s speech was to simply lay there and not listen to anything he said, voting for both sides when asked if rats should be considered enemies. The reason she is my favourite animal is this reaction to the speech. While reading the chapter I thought that was exactly what I would do in that situation, and so I quickly became identified with her and she became my favourite character from the first moment she appeared. I also liked the way she seems to only do what she wants to do, the way she walks around and goes where she wants, getting comfortable and paying attention to what she wants, not Old Major’s speech in this case. I can’t really judge the character very well though, after all, it’s only the first chapter.