Raymond Carver Cathedral Summary

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and later moved to Yakima, Washington at the age of three. Carver never realized how bad his characters were until he read the critics of his work. His career began with a volume of poems, Near Klamath (1968). His book of short stories includes “Will You Please Be Quiet. Please? (1977),” “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981),” Cathedral (1983), “Where I’m Calling From (1988).” His biggest victory is that he quit drinking in 1977. The narrator and the main character of “Cathedral” is the husband. He is telling the story in first person. He can be a mean person and seems that way at the beginning of the story, but changes towards the end. He likes to drink scotch and smoke …show more content…
As you read this story you are able to figure out what is going on without being told. The narrator speculated everything the blind man did and said in the story. Like when he thought blind people didn’t smoke, but he saw Robert did. You would think a blind person would burn their hands trying to smoke. At one point he didn’t know what to say when Robert said he had two TV’s, “one with color and the other black and white.” I wouldn’t know what to say either, because he wouldn’t be able to watch either one. The theme would be the “Difference Between Looking and Seeing.” The husband didn’t start actually seeing until he closed his eyes with Robert, and they actually saw the Cathedral together. The narrator has an epiphany that he is able to see through blindness, which opens up his mind to new beginnings and understandings. Looking is just like glancing at something, seeing is understanding what you’re looking …show more content…
Louis in 1851. In 1883, O’Flaherty was left to raise six children when her husband died. She began to write after his death. Her great novel, “The Awakening (1889),” seemed to outrage critics due to the portrait of a woman who “seeks sexual and professional independence.” She was unable to get her other work published before she died, because of the portrait. The main character, Calixta, is a full figured woman with red lips, blue eyes, and yellow hair. She is the mother of Bibi and the wife of Bobinot. The story is told in object third person omniscient. It is told from the different character’s point of view throughout the story. The story is about Calixta and Alcee. The setting is during a storm in a small town of Louisiana, at the home of Bobinot and

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