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In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the narrator uses sight to make himself feel superior to Robert as he is threatened by Robert's ability to make deep connections however, this hinders the narrator's ability to connect with people as he is not able to see below their superficial attributes. Because of his insecurity and lack of understanding, the narrator is constantly criticizing and making Robert, the blind man, feel inadequate. This is because the narrator feels threatened by…

Miss Brill to me is a story about a lady who is mentally challenge. It appears that life revolves around the conversations and festivities that happen every Sunday in her neighborhood. She most definitely looks forward to them. Each Sunday she dresses up in garments that she believes is her most stunning to the publics and her eyes. She has a fur that she takes extra special care of. She wears this fur on Sunday’s and places it in a box neatly when she’s done and tucks it away, until next…

Annotated Bibliography Hope, Harry R. "Form in Chekhov's Short Stories." Short Story Criticism, edited by Sheila Fitzgerald, vol. 2, Gale, 1989. Short Story Criticism Online, db15.linccweb.org/login? The play "The Brute" written by Anton Chekhov, where a woman with severe depression tries to stay faithful to her deceased husband. Chekhov is not a traditional writer, he is a writer and influences other contemporary authors with his writing. In his plays he regularly reuses characters, and…

In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral", the narrator seems to have a small minded approach towards life. In the beginning, the narrator ridicules his wife's past lover, and Robert's (the blind man's) wife, Beulah. When the narrator begins to explain the story behind Robert's wife, he states that there wedding "was a little wedding—who’d want to go to such a wedding in the first place?—"( page 3). In this, the narrator is seen to be negative and bitter towards Robert. Similarly, the narrator ridicules…

Interpretive Response #1 To Look or To See Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” centers upon a narrator who is psychologically blind to the world around him. Although the narrator is not physically blind and he is capable of looking at the world from his own naïve perspective, he’s incapable of actually seeing anything beyond the surface. He is detached from the world around him, isolating himself in a sheltered world that he has created for himself. His ignorance of the unknown seems to scare him,…

A cathedral is a large church from the Gothic period, but in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”, a cathedral represents much more than that. The story of Cathedral is about an unknown man whose wife invites a long-standing friend over to stay, who happens to be blind. The unknown man, who is the narrator, is unhappy about the blind man’s visit for he has prejudices against blind people, as he has never met a blind person before. In the end, he overcomes his prejudices and everyone has a…

DCD: Dissociative Chekhovs Disorder Creative writing is no easy task. Coming up with characters, locations, and situations which can relate to audiences is almost impossible without prior experiences to work off of. Without previous knowledge, writing can fall flat and be hard to relate to. While initially Chekhov’s play The Seagull was a flop due to it’s comedic nature, when it was re-worked in a more serious light as opposed to a farce, it garnered great success. This is in part thanks to the…

first step in an author 's career can be writing short stories. Every story contains its key techniques that apply a certain feeling and pizazz to it, and the following stories are some examples of this. In the short stories the Lottery Ticket by Anton Chekhov and Cornet and Night by Sinclair…

Raymond Carver “Jerry and Molly and Sam” is a short story of a man who is an alcoholic. The story takes us to the life of an alcoholic whose name is Al. Because Al hates the dog he plans “to get rid of the dog without Betty or the kids finding out about it” (Carver 15). This is significant because he thinks that getting rid of dog will fix all his problems. Furthermore, he thinks that the dog is useless. According to Stephanie Harrison, editor of the Adaptations, she emphasizes that most of…

The first short story talked about in this paper is “Anna on the Neck” by Anton Chekhov. “Anna on the Neck” takes place in the late 1800’s, it portrays a girl 's "falling into corruption" beautifully. Anna, from a poor family is forced into a loveless marriage, to a rich older man. Anna is afraid of having no money, of being totally dependent, she finds how she can conquer, by using her beauty, charm and youth. Anna only did this for a reason in the beginning, although she starts getting used…