Cathedral

Saron Hunegnaw Washington National Cathedral Sunday morning, 1945, a foggy morning service was begining at The Washington National Cathedral. This is significant because the deceased corpses of World War Two soldiers are returning home for a proper burial. As a consequence widows, heart-broken mothers, and fatherless children line up to enter The National House of Prayer. Nevertheless Nationalism Grips Europe, and sorrow spreads across the United…

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the title of the story plays a major part in the story that you wouldn’t expect until you have read the whole story. The narrator of the story is very judgmental and rude because he feels he is better than everyone else. Throughout the story, we see the narrator start to change little by little to start to accept the blind man for who he is as a person. As they are eating dinner together there is a documentary in the background playing called the “cathedral”. This…

Gothic cathedrals lasted from the twelfth century to the sixteenth century. They were first developed to bring happiness into people’s lives and especially the churches. The word Gothic first came from the Goths, who were “barbarians”, who held power in various places in Europe. The Goths lasted from the fifth to the eighth century, during the collapse of Rome and the start of the Holy Roman Empire. The Goths weren’t known for their architectural skills. Gothic cathedrals grew out of the…

Stylist Analysis Jackson Pollock the world renowned drip painter is often one of the artists that almost everyone knows on the spot. Cathedral, 1947 is a painting held in the Dallas Museum of Art and was created using enamel and aluminum paint on canvas. Measuring at a 71 1/2 x 35 1/16 inches, this is no small painting. Cathedral, is comprised of organic shapes rather than geometric. The entirety of the work is the product of paint dripping off of a paintbrush. This controlled chaos is…

In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the reader is given two similar marriages in a different time period. The marriage in “Cathedral”, the narrator and his wife, who are both unnamed, and the marriage in “The Yellow Wallpaper” between the narrator and her husband John shows similar qualities in how inequality can play an affect, resulting in a disaster between the two. Both husbands share the lack of respect and equally for women, especially to…

hard. They have to cope and adjust to be a part of the society. They have to depend on their other senses to explore the world around them. The good thing about it is they learn to use their other sense better than other people. Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is set in the days when the switch from black and white to color television was in its early stages, and when cassette tapes were a cutting edge technology. The story took place in his own house in one evening. A good friend of Raymond’s wife…

In ‘The Cathedral’ we see a characters resistance to accept the arrival of his wife’s old blind friend, with a distasteful pang of jealousy and disgust playing its hand. It would be arrogant of anyone to say that they have never disliked someone before they even met…

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” is fascinating short story written in 1983. As I indulged in the story I was somewhat surprised by the narrators thoughts and actions. As I read the story again I started to understand the actions of the unnamed narrator and how they related to the theme. I have dislike for the narrator in this story, but I am glad that he had the epiphany that he had at the end of the story and can forgive him for his actions. It is clear that the narrator feels very uncomfortable…

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…

In the story of “Cathedral” written by Raymond Carver, there are three main characters: The protagonist, his wife, and wife’s blind friend, Robert. The story tells about that the protagonist, who has only tunnel vision, has been living in loneliness everyday that he cannot even notice himself before he meets his wife’s blind friend, Robert. After the protagonist meets Robert, he learns naturally how to communicate with other people through the conversation between him and Robert. At the end of…