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Character Analysis (Cathedral) The “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. The unnamed narrator who is also the husband undergoes an emotional change throughout the story. The narrator's wife used to work for a blind man called Robert whose wife sadly died of cancer, and he is coming to visit the narrator and his wife, but the narrator is not happy about the visit. All because in his shallow mind, he thinks blind people are dirty and miserable. Sadly, enough he got this feeling from what he has seen…

Raymond Carvers “Cathedral” is about social isolation and ignorance. Through the narrator’s personality, his relationship with other people and the resolution of story’s central conflict, the story raises an important commentary on the need for human interaction. “cathedral” suggests inability to understand human interaction and relationship causes an insecure and ignorant personality however, creativity acts as a healing factor to obtain a sense of life. Narrator holds a stereotypical mind set…

The short story “Cathedral,” written by Raymond Carver, is about a nameless narrator and his wife who welcome her blind friend Robert to their home shortly after his wife passes away. The relationship between Robert and the narrator progresses during Robert’s stay as they get to know one another better. The story embodies one of the main theme that is discussed in class: “life passages.” The concept of “life passages” involves adversities, events, and successes that contribute to how individuals…

Born September 9th 1828 into a wealthy Russian household, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy more commonly known as, Leo Tolstoy is renown as one of the greatest world literature prolific authors of all time. While only a child, Tolstoy’s parents died leaving it up to family members to raise him and educate him. His profound love of wanting to become a writer started at the age of twenty-three. According to Daniel Burt, Burt states that “no author has ever shown such a power of insight into the variety…

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”…

A short story of Miss Brill is a glance into the life of an old lady who is alone in her life and is teaching English to the students. The story has been beautifully written by Katherine Mansfield, who beautifully compares and contrasts the self-personality of an old lady. The story beautifully describes the perception of the old lady and the actual truth which she faces in the later part of the story. Katherine Mansfield uses setting, imagery, and symbolism to develop a narrative structure in…

Ashley Roberts Mr. Johnson World History 22 November 2017 Chekhov: The Major Plays “Chekhov: The Major Plays” is a novel written by Anton Chekhov about four plays that he wrote himself. The plays this novel is about are “The Sea Gull”, “Uncle Vanya”, “The Three Sisters”, and “The Cherry Orchard”. Born in Taganrog, Russia in the 1860’s, Anton Chekhov was a Russian literary figure. He also was known as one of the best playwrights in this time period. He wrote comedies and tragedies in his…

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play that takes place in a 19th century rural town in Russia. The Prosorov siblings, Olga, Masha, Irina and Andrey are unsatisfied with their life in this provincial town, so they dream that one day they will return to Moscow. Moscow symbolises hope for the Prosorovs. They identify Moscow with their happiness in which they feel they can fulfil their dreams. But their constant fantasizing of Moscow makes them neglect their present. There are references to…

“The Grasshopper and the bell cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata is a short story which is told by an isolated narrator who looks in on the situation before him and then communicates to us in the first person. Kawabata makes use of this narrator to communicate themes of alienation, lost love, deception and the nature of time. Themes such as these are very relevant in the lives of ordinary, everyday people and carry much weight in them. The fact that Kawabata is able to capture so much reality in the…

Deception Can Ruin You (An Analysis on Macbeth) “Actions speak louder than words and in the tragedy Macbeth, the actions of the central characters are screaming” (Drake). “Macbeth” is a tragic play produced by the well-known playwright William Shakespeare. This play began to spark multiple controversies over Shakespeare’s work. In 1606, this play was officially showed, and Shakespeare made some brave decisions regarding the scenes involved in the play. Although this is a well-known play, only…