The narrator of the story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver has never met someone who was blind until Robert came to visit. Robert has been a friend of the narrator ’s wife for the past ten years and is spending the night because he has not seen her for such a long time‚ but this bothers the narrator. He does not regard a blind man as a normal person with whom he can relate with‚ and is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of having to socialize with one for an entire evening. The narrator is stereotypical
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In James Joyce’s “Araby” and Flannery O’Conner’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” both authors direct the reader’s attention to a key moment of insight or discovery by building the readers expectations throughout the story and then surprising the reader with an ending where the main character contradicts the readers built expectations‚ thus highlighting the epiphany. Joyce directs the reader through the uses of setting and narration while O’Conner heavily uses dialogue. In Araby‚ the opening scene
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This also ties in with our current society‚ as individuals struggle to find the absolute truth in life. The word truth is based on individual’s opinions and perception‚
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The “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is a story about the narrator‚ his wife and his wife’s friend Robert‚ who is a blind man that she used to work for as a reader about ten years ago. They were able to keep in touch by mailing tapes to each other. Robert’ wife just died so he was coming for dinner and was going to spend the night at their house after visiting some relatives. The narrator‚ who lack social skills‚ was not so thrilled about entertaining a blind man and was a little jealous about his
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In “Cathedral” the author focuses on the narrator’s reality. In the beginning the narrator based his vision of Robert the blind man‚ on images he has seen in movies. The narrator uses his wife’s descriptions‚ the tapes‚ and his vision of Robert to get to know Robert. The narrator’s wife met Robert one summer in Seattle when she needed a job. On her last day of work the blind man touched her face. She tried to write a poem about it because this was something that was really important to her. She
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Examine character development as exhibited in one story The narrator in Carver’s "Cathedral" changes his point of viewat the end of the story. In the story‚ the man is seen with his wife‚ but has some arguments between each other. The following paragraphs will include the original thinking of the narrator‚ what is the key point for him to change‚ and how does he change at the end of the story. At the beginning of the story‚ the narrator has his own ideas about things and will not attempt to see his
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From the beginning of time‚ beautiful cathedrals have been towering above buildings; still survive with their astonishing appearance. In doing this paper I was never aware of anything called “Gothic Cathedrals”. Only by 1400 has the Gothic been the universal style of building in the western‚ its creative thought was in northern France in an area. The Gothic Age marked the end to an age of chaos‚ mostly caused by the sacking of the Vikings. In this time; a very religious age‚ with money throughout
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During the beginning of this course‚ we read several works of literature‚ one being the “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver‚ An American short-storyteller and poet. The narrator in this story realizes the capability he has of focusing on something that has never been important to him. The story leaves us with a small sense of optimism that the narrator will change the way he views his life. Because the blind man was not an important person to the narrator‚ the narrator made his own impression of him. This
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alcoholism‚ and was an unsuccessful writer early on in his career. It was not until his publication of “Cathedral” that he gained success. Carver even believed that “Cathedral was a watershed in his career‚ in its shift towards a more optimistic and confidently poetic style” (Arciniegas). “Cathedral” starts out slow‚ spending most of the short story on the back story of the narrator’s wife and a blind man. The story progresses with the three characters doing mostly everyday things‚ eating‚ talking‚ and
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