Brent Carver

Cathedral, a short story written by Raymond Carver, the narrator seems to have a kind of dysfunctional type of relationship with his wife. The wife seems like a kind and emotional person while the narrator is kind of closed off emotionally. This differences can sometimes lead to small arguments like the one they had when he offered to take the blind man to bowling “God dam it, his wife just died! Don’t you understand that? The man just lost his wife! (Carver, 1983)”. Even though, the man is…

connection that it makes with the mind. Whether we talk about print media or electronic media the connection it establishes with the audience is actually what makes the difference. I would want to establish this fact as per the Print reading of the “Carver- Cathedral”. The story makes a beautiful connect with the audience as it clearly states of what a person looks like, what is he feeling at a particular point and the feelings that tend to approach a reader and the level of involvement with the…

The general argument made by author Raymond Carver in his work Little Things is one about a couple facing problems in their marital life and a child suffering because of it. The story begins describing the weather outside and the overall feeling of what is to come. More specifically, Carver discusses that there is something that has come between the couple, but he does not elaborate. Towards the end of the story he writes, “But he would not let go. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and…

“Little Things” written by Raymond Carver demonstrates how lost hope in a family develops regularly throughout the world today. This is significant, for Carver creates a short story with minimal usage of explanations to inform readers of how couples take the road to hell. You can describe his writing as an unspoken story; stories where much of the author’s writing is implied or understood without being spoken. Our minds take in information and create scenarios from his writing with what was…

Short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is about how the blind man, Robert, inspires the narrator, the husband of Robert’s friend, to really see the world despite being blind. "Cathedral" is narrated by a man whose wife has an old friend who is coming to visit from Seattle. The friend is blind and his wife has just passed away. The narrator identifies Robert's blindness as his defining characteristic. Though Robert is blind, he can perceive the world in ways the narrator cannot understand and…

starts drinking to remove himself from social situations. After the narrator sees Robert smoking, he changes his ideals about Robert and the blind in general. The narrator saw Robert “smoking his cigarette down to the nubbin and then lit another one” (Carver 93). The narrator’s views about the blind people have surpassed his…

Morally blind There are about three thousand cathedrals, and about 39 million blind people, around the world. That is about 39 million people that don’t get to see the beautiful walls and insides of cathedrals. In In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral,” an unnamed narrator suddenly faces his own preconceptions, jealousy and prejudices about blind people that in return makes him emotionally and morally blind himself. Without actually being blind, the narrator of the story judges and puts…

In the short story by Raymond Carver, known as “Cathedral,” the narrator is shown by Robert the blind man that he is blind figuratively as much as Robert who is literally blind. The story seeks to demonstrate how there are different aspects of blindness. The narrator shows his blindness to the world through his stereotypical ideas and assumptions before he truly meets Robert. “In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed” (76). “Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs” (76). The…

In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver the cathedral that the narrator draws with Robert, the blind man, represents true sight and the ability to see beyond the surface of things in order to see the true meaning that lies within. In the beginning, the narrator can see with his eyes well, but he has trouble understanding people’s thoughts and feelings. The narrator is even unable to understand the person who is supposed to be closes to him, his own wife, and is therefore unable to…

the way he sees things, because of what he watches or reads about them. When the narrator turns on the television, he apologizes but Robert pays him no mind, “Whatever you want to watch is okay. I’m always learning something. Learning never ends.” (Carver 39.). This immediately shows a difference between the narrator and Robert, and ultimately switches and brings the two together. As stated before, when faced with the task of verbally explaining the cathedral to Robert, the narrator is only able…