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    In Raymond Carver's short story, "Cathedral”, the narrator goes through a major personal transformation. At the beginning of the story, the narrator lacks insight and awareness about the things around him. The struggles and failures he faces limits his social life which leads him to being isolated from society. His wife's blind friend, Robert, pulls him out of his comfort zone, which allows his attitude and outlook on life to change. The narrator in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" develops from…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Raymond’s Carver is an American writer that wrote the short story, “Cathedral,” that uses a first person point of view narration in which the narrator fundamentally transforms and is enlightened with a self-realization. The story transitions in a change in the tone of the narrator as being sarcastic, judgmental, and insulting in which he experiences an epiphany and has a brighter perception. The story begins with the feeling of apprehension of the gathering of his wife’s friend Robert who is…

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    Those incapable of sight are often considered to be limited, less fortunate and lost. Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral”, explains the wonders behind those who are blind and how they see more than anyone with sight. A blind man by the name of Robert strives to open the mind of a very arrogant, detached man that does not see what the world truly is. The narrator, given the nickname Bub, and Robert symbolize two parts of society and represent different ways of thinking. The cathedral used…

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    Sophie Guerra Allies, LIT1000 Analysis paper 10/21/16 Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is a seemingly straight forward short story telling of man who can see, a man who is blind, and the night they spend watching television after drinking and the narrator’s wife has fallen asleep. However, as the story goes on and is examined further, we find that it is full of themes, some more obvious than others, but all equally important when it comes to fully understanding the story. It is a story of deep…

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    In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” he shows that just because someone can see does not mean that they cannot also be blind to somethings. Often because someone is blind people look at them as if they cannot do as much as someone that can see, but because they are blind they realize or “see” things that others do not. The narrator thinks this way about the blind man, Robert, through most of the story. Carver uses the narrator’s point of view, imagery, and tone to show the reader how the narrator is…

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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…

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    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…

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