In his short story Cathedral Raymond Carver challenges the conventional ideas often associated with blindness and sight The irony in this story is that it takes a blind man to make a seeing man see Most stereotypes tend to make us feel superior in some way to the person or group being stereotyped Stereotypes ignore the uniqueness of individuals by painting all members of a group with the same brush All of us have prejudices about members of groups different from ourselves Cathedral is a story a
A persons ability to see is often taken for granted as it is in Cathedral by Raymond Carver Although the title suggests that the story is about a cathedral it is really about two men who are blind one physically the other psychologically One of the two men is Robert the blind friend of the narrators wife the other is the narrator husband himself Bub The husband is the man who is psychologically blind and goes through a major personal transformation At the beginning of the story his opinions of
At first glance Raymond Carvers writing technique of Cathedral seems rather simplistic but after further analysis of the story one realizes that it surfaces many levels of complexities Carver striving to prove an optimistic view of human attitudes and attributes changes his characters ignorance and disgruntlement into self realization and eagerness Cathedral illustrates how the comfort zone of an introverted man can turn into fear and ultimately a prison Carvers character the narrator is caught
In the short story Cathedral Raymond Carver introduces the main character who has no name In this story the narrator can be perceived as the main character The narrator is not an insightful man He can be described as sarcastic self centered egotistical and arrogant From the start of the story the narrator is not too thrilled about the blind manRobert visiting the Carvers home He seems to be jealous and insecure of the history that his wife and Robert shared together However through the course o
Discovery Within The authors of these two pieces of literature are married They are both known for their short stories and poems Raymond Carver the author of Cathedral shows his writing style through the blind mans hardships in life and abrupt ending Tess Gallagher the author of Sudden Journey shows her intimate personal style of writing by portraying a little girl and how she feels about the rain Cathedral and Sudden Journey both depict transformation while Cathedral shows self transformation