My favorite part of this essay was having the ability to analyze the characters as well as what Raymond Carver may have been trying to portray through the characters in “Popular Mechanics” and “Cathedral”. I appreciated the fact there was no “wrong” answer if you were able to provide the evidence as to why you thought Carver felt or believed what he did. I also enjoyed this essay because it allowed us to interject our own views about love and marriage, something I feel so strongly about, and whether or not we believed carver was “right” in his own beliefs. In a good majority of essays there really is no “wrong” answer however I found this one easier to write. I’m not quite sure why I found it easier, but I think it may be due to the fact I had found a good academic journal source about his life…show more content… Having written a research paper on alcoholism and being that my step-dad is a sobered alcoholic it was all very clear as to what he may be going through and why he viewed relationships and marriage as a set up for failure. With this first essay I made a few quote sandwich errors, a couple punctuation errors, and a works cited error. All of them were pretty much just silly little mistakes that amounted to a lot. I honestly forgot to cite my opening quote which actually came from a TED talk. I also forgot about putting the punctuation in the quote when there is no page number and I think that was partially because I was focused on properly citing Carver’s sources as we discussed in class. I’m annoyed with myself because the day draft two was due we went over the proper way to cite all of our in-text citations and I caught that I had messed a lot of mine up however when I went back to fix it I still somehow had forgotten one. I had the article title in a separate sentence from the actual quote when it all needs to be in the same sentence to match up with the works
