After two lessons of learning, I have benefited much from them. I enjoyed the stories of Cathedral and Hills like White Elephant. The narrative structures of these two stories are very different, but they all have one thing in common, which is their fascinating ways of expression to create conflicts and tensions.
In the masterpiece of Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the narrative style along with the well constructed architect of the story and theme combines together to form an excellent story. Cathedral has a first person narrative style, the first person narrator tells the story in fragments of sentences, often short and simple, like “This blind man, an old friend of my wife 's, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife 's relatives in Connecticut” (Norton, 206).The sentences are well related to the message of narration, they are particularly judgemental. Thus as readers, we know only that which the narrator knows. The narrator in the story has prejudices to blind people, mostly stereotypical prejudices. His prejudices of blind people induce him to tell awful jokes and speak sarcastically. The narrator considers all blind people are like freaks and look creepy. When his wife mentions about the blind man’s dead wife, he …show more content…
But Hemingway also expressed some major conflicts in the story using a third person narrative style. In the story, we can see both the narrator and the journalist working together for the creation of story. The journalist only tells us what the characters’ actions are and what their conversations are. But the journalist provides us the settings of story, which it take places in a bar near a train station by the river Ebro in Spain, also the weather is hot. Then the narrator tells the story in past tense, which means the narrator, puts the story together after the
In the masterpiece of Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the narrative style along with the well constructed architect of the story and theme combines together to form an excellent story. Cathedral has a first person narrative style, the first person narrator tells the story in fragments of sentences, often short and simple, like “This blind man, an old friend of my wife 's, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife 's relatives in Connecticut” (Norton, 206).The sentences are well related to the message of narration, they are particularly judgemental. Thus as readers, we know only that which the narrator knows. The narrator in the story has prejudices to blind people, mostly stereotypical prejudices. His prejudices of blind people induce him to tell awful jokes and speak sarcastically. The narrator considers all blind people are like freaks and look creepy. When his wife mentions about the blind man’s dead wife, he …show more content…
But Hemingway also expressed some major conflicts in the story using a third person narrative style. In the story, we can see both the narrator and the journalist working together for the creation of story. The journalist only tells us what the characters’ actions are and what their conversations are. But the journalist provides us the settings of story, which it take places in a bar near a train station by the river Ebro in Spain, also the weather is hot. Then the narrator tells the story in past tense, which means the narrator, puts the story together after the