Raymond Carver is one of the men accredited for reviving the contemporary short story genre. He was an excessive drinker and this shaped his stories along with the qualities of minimalism and dirty realism. Edward Hopper was an American painter that specialized in realism. Hopper’s artwork depicted the accurate, detailed, and embellished nature of contemporary life. Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” and Edward Hopper’s painting Room in New York both exhibit someone examining a relationship from outside looking and through this examination you can see a congruent conflict and tone. In “Cathedral” and Room in New York there is someone that analyzes a relationship that they cannot understand. In Edward Hopper’s Room in New York the scene
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In “Cathedral” there is a conflict between the narrator and his wife. The narrator and his wife do not have a great relationship, and the narrator’s wife cannot talk to her husband because he does not understand her. The narrator’s wife wants the narrator to make her blind friend feel comfortable and so she has to beg and bargain with her husband to get this: “If you love me, you can do this for me. If you don’t love me, okay” (212). In Room in New York, you see a man reading a newspaper and what seems to be his wife sitting at a piano. The wife looks bored and like she wants to say something to her husband but she can’t because he is engaged in his newspaper. You can see that the woman is unhappy by her body language as she sits facing away from her husband. Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Edward Hopper’s Room in New York both show the conflicts between couples. Both works have the conflict of unhappy and distant …show more content…
In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the narrator is jealous and lonely. He and his wife have a distant relationship, and then with the arrival of the blind man this really makes the narrator uneasy. You can see how lonely the narrator has been when he let the readers know they sleep in separate rooms: “In my wife’s room, I looked around” (226). The narrator also let the reader know that he and his wife go to sleep at different times when he says, “My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time” (221). In Room in New York you can see in the body language of the women that she is lonely and that their relationship is not very close. You can see from the painting that they can’t talk to each other and you can see that she is sad about this. In the painting you can see the man is preoccupied and he is not paying any attention to her. The loneliness and distance in “Cathedral” and Room in New York are not characteristics of good relationships.
“Cathedral” and Room in New York both show characteristics of minimalism and realism. In both of these works the character are not named or not fully detailed. Carver and Hopper both leave the audience forming their conclusions and opinions about what is going on. Specifically in “Cathedral” and Room in New York, Carver and Hopper use an outside source examining a relationship to show the tone and conflicts of their
In “Cathedral” there is a conflict between the narrator and his wife. The narrator and his wife do not have a great relationship, and the narrator’s wife cannot talk to her husband because he does not understand her. The narrator’s wife wants the narrator to make her blind friend feel comfortable and so she has to beg and bargain with her husband to get this: “If you love me, you can do this for me. If you don’t love me, okay” (212). In Room in New York, you see a man reading a newspaper and what seems to be his wife sitting at a piano. The wife looks bored and like she wants to say something to her husband but she can’t because he is engaged in his newspaper. You can see that the woman is unhappy by her body language as she sits facing away from her husband. Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Edward Hopper’s Room in New York both show the conflicts between couples. Both works have the conflict of unhappy and distant …show more content…
In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the narrator is jealous and lonely. He and his wife have a distant relationship, and then with the arrival of the blind man this really makes the narrator uneasy. You can see how lonely the narrator has been when he let the readers know they sleep in separate rooms: “In my wife’s room, I looked around” (226). The narrator also let the reader know that he and his wife go to sleep at different times when he says, “My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time” (221). In Room in New York you can see in the body language of the women that she is lonely and that their relationship is not very close. You can see from the painting that they can’t talk to each other and you can see that she is sad about this. In the painting you can see the man is preoccupied and he is not paying any attention to her. The loneliness and distance in “Cathedral” and Room in New York are not characteristics of good relationships.
“Cathedral” and Room in New York both show characteristics of minimalism and realism. In both of these works the character are not named or not fully detailed. Carver and Hopper both leave the audience forming their conclusions and opinions about what is going on. Specifically in “Cathedral” and Room in New York, Carver and Hopper use an outside source examining a relationship to show the tone and conflicts of their