Brent Carver

Change can happen anywhere, in Cathedral change happens in one single night. It happened in the most beautiful and unexpected way so by the end of the tale, all characters will experience a dramatic change. When Narrator, at the beginning of the story when he learns that Robert is coming to visit, he gets jealous and angry. Even though he isn’t literally blind, he shows a lack of insight and self-awareness, in many ways, that make him blinder than Robert. He can see perfectly fine with his…

Plot refers to the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. The events that make up the story "Cathedral" Written by Raymond Carter in 1910, starts with Bub a dynamic character whose wife's blind friend Robert, whose wife recently passed is coming to visit their home. The idea of having a blind man in his home troubles Bub and Robert's blindness unsettles him. Bubs wife built an association with Robert ten years prior when she worked for him as a reader. During this time they…

The story I chose for the movie is “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. It’s a very interesting and simple story that change the perspective of a narrator of how he can see beyond the surface, and the inner self. The writer uses a first-person narrator to emphasize the hidden aspects of the story that are beyond human experience which the narrator relates too. For the cast, the role of un-named narrator would play by my uncle. My aunt will play the role of un-named narrator’s wife. Lastly Robert would…

I chose to discuss “Cathedral” by Raymond carver for my first essay and 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…

(smell, touch, sight, hearing and taste) are functioning at all time. If one of these senses is not functioning the way it should be then, the person is called abnormal person or person having birth a defect. In this short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver is about a guy name Robert, who does not have his eyesight. Because he is blind, he is living tough life. But he has a unique gift of seeing things without his eyesight and with that he is able to see stuff which people with eyesight can’t…

Based on what he see on movies, he think that blind are depressing. However at the end of the history he changed his mind and had a different feeling about his company with the blind man and had an amazing experience. Therefore, in cathedral, Raymond carver explore irony, and the symbolism of spiritual awakening through its characters. “And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind…

Raymond Carver made this short story really interesting due to the fact that he doesn't say directly how the character feels or how they are, but express their characteristics by pointing out their actions. In ''Cathedral'' there is not only one but two important characters which are the narrator who is a man and Robert, an old friend of the narrator's wife. The narrator is known to be a jealous person. The story expresses this feature of him by the way he tells the readers about the time the…

Morgan Bishop Professor Jessica E. Lindberg English 1102 9 April 2015 Seeing Without Sight The story “Cathedral” written by Raymond Carver uses the symbol of a cathedral itself to depict the theme, which is the ability to truly perceive something rather than just having the physical capability to look at an object or a place. A symbol, in a literary sense, is an object or act that means something more than just its literal definition. Carver’s use of the cathedral provides the narrator of the…

Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a short story that tells a narrative about a woman, her husband, and a blind man that is well acquainted with the wife. Throughout this story, there is quite a inexplicable aspect regarding the blind man. The blind man, Robert, and the woman had been friends for many years, and her husband is finally getting the opportunity to meet him. The husband, who is also the narrator for this story, does not know anything about this man. There is a lot of mystery surrounding…

Meaning on Blindness in “Cathedral” Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” presents some of the poet’s minimalist approaches in storytelling and language that focuses on middle class people facing consequences and small revelations in their ordinary lives. Carver makes sure that his concept on blindness plays a crucial role in his short story’s characters and give a sense of optimism and awareness to the reader. People who are blind don’t seem to see the environment around them, but they’re capable of…