Chekhov Gymnasium

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…

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…

In “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill is a very kind woman who observes other peoples’ actions, but does not ever try to interact along with them. Miss Brill would rather spend her Sundays sitting at the park with her fox fur eavesdropping on other peoples’ conversations and judging them for their appearances, while creating the perfect world in her head. Little does she know, she lives her life through the people around her and those people in the park portray her traits. Miss…

“Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story about an old woman attempting to live her sad, lonely life through others. Through indirect characterization Mansfield conveys to the readers the pseudo happiness, self deception, detachment and loneliness Miss brill suffers from. Although Mansfield never truly tells the reader about Miss Brill’s personality; through point of view the reader can infer what Miss brill is like and her state of being. The third person limited point of view used…

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…