Raymond Carver The Cathedral Analysis

When a coin is tossed into the air one can never accurately predict which side will show its face, we can make predictions and assumptions of the altitude it shall rotate and change its fate but we will never truly know until it lands. This reminds me of the unpredictable reactions in human beings when a difficult situation bares its ugly head. Delve closer on a psychological view and we will see the relationship that the brain has with one’s self, communicating by sending out chemical information from one neuron or nerve cell to another; allowing daily functions such as generating movement, speaking, listening, regulating the systems of the body, thinking and most importantly in this argument; feeling. Sure you can say certain situations evoke selected emotions, emotions enable us to react to situations whether it be with anger, fear, happiness, jealousy and so on but as an …show more content…
In ‘The Cathedral’ we see a characters resistance to accept the arrival of his wife’s old blind friend, with a distasteful pang of jealousy and disgust playing its hand. It would be arrogant of anyone to say that they have never disliked someone before they even met them and even more arrogant to justify their bitterness towards a stranger, which confirms my belief that we feel certain emotions uncontrollably therefore if it is difficult to understand why we ourselves react the way we do to certain situations it would be extremely difficult if not impossible for others to understand why anyone reacts as they do to difficult situations. Towards the end of the story the husband in the cathedral learnt that his preconceived jealousy and disgust toward the blind man was unjustified and