Raymond Carver was a contemporary short story writer in the 1900s and his stories mainly feature lower and middle class people because those are the people he grew up around. His stories focus on the everyday struggles of average humans and not fantasy wonderlands. The two short stories I chose to focus on are Cathedral and Popular Mechanics. In Cathedral we follow a man who is struggling with his marriage and very skeptical about a new visitor who will be coming to his house. In Popular Mechanics…
In the story, “Cathedral” Raymond Carver, is a story about bringing people together. This story has three main characters. However, the story mostly focuses on the blind man and the narrator. The narrator was a very narrow-minded and didn’t want to get involved or have any relationship with anyone else. However, through the course of the story, the narrator was able to make a friendship with his wife’s friend the blind man by using a cathedral, which brought them together. Carver uses exposition…
“Cathedral” The main character in the short story “Cathedral,” written by a well written American short story Author, Raymond Carver, is a married man with doubts of another man from his wife’s past, making him jealous. Carver uses the husband, Bub, to narrate the story. The story tells about Robert, the antagonist who lost his wife and visits his old friend. The envious character causes conflict with himself about the relationship of the wife and friend. The protagonist’s uneasiness of meeting…
Katie Young Peyer ENGL 1302 15 11 2016 Research Paper: Cathedral Raymond Carver’s story “Cathedral” is about a blind man named Robert who visits a woman friend, married to another man. The protagonist in the story is the narrator himself. This story reveals the lives of two blind men, one physically and the other one symbolically blind. This story mainly focuses on the narrator. Narrator’s mesmerizes not only reveal his flaws, but also his perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards people…
Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a simple short story on the outside but is a riveting personal growth story about a husband and wife and their guest at their house, the blind man, Robert. The narrator is the husband, who knows very little about blind people akin to Robert who at the end knows little about cathedrals. Raymond Carver uses multiple literary devices to convey his story to the readers. In my paper I will be talking about three of them, I will be discussing Carver’s use of point of view…
Raymond Carver 's short story, "Cathedral", the narrator goes through a major personal transformation. At the beginning of the story, the narrator who lacks insight and awareness things around him. The struggles and failures he faces limit his social life which leads him to isolated from society. His wife 's blind friend Robert, pulls him out of his comfort zone which allows his attitude and outlook on life start to changes. The narrator in Raymond Carver 's "Cathedral" develops from being a blind…
Cathedral by Raymond Carver In this short story, “Cathedral” written by Raymond Carver, a man whose wife invited a good friend over named Robert, who is blind, comes over one evening. Before Roberts Arrival, Bub does not know what to make out of his wife’s good friend Robert coming over to their house. Carver utilizes a story of a blind man who changes Bub’s outlook in life, when one blind man and one man with sight share an evening together drawing out a cathedral. Through the narrators personality…
Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” quite intriguing. The short story is riddled with symbolism or hidden meanings. If the reader were to look at the story without analyzing properly the reader might think this story is about a blind man visiting his friend. With careful analyzing the writer has concluded that this story has three motifs in this small short story. The first motif is the worldly eyes of the husband, the second being a life lesson, and the third being religion. The book begins…
his wife and a blind man. Raymond Carver is the author of this story, and he does an excellent job allowing the reader to delve into the lives of these characters. Through using the thoughts of the narrator, the reader is able to grab our attention because the story is made more realistic. The views expressed by the narrator in many senses exemplify the views of many in society and therefore the reader is able to make an emotional connection through the story. Raymond Carver is a renowned short…
Raymond Carver is known for writing minimal fiction; a style of writing popularized in the 1980s and heavily criticized for using new techniques. Carver’s writings are heavily influenced by his own life of alcoholism and abuse. When speaking on his past alcoholism Carver said, “It 's very painful to think about some of the things that happened back then. I made a wasteland out of everything I touched. But I might add that towards the end of the drinking there wasn 't much left anyway” (Messer…