Raymond Carver Cathedral

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To think a cathedral could make somebody navigate thru their mind and find a bigger purpose in their life it is an unlikely fulfillment and an abnormal conclusion but a probable outcome of The Cathedral a short story by Raymond Carver. There is symbolism, themes, characters and learning experiences from this text. The short story conveys into a mindset where it would make most people rethink how they reflect, feel, and see things in their environment. This being stated because a blind man made a capable individual of seeing, see what the blind man could see. The Author Raymond Carver writes in a simplistic and easy to follow style almost shadowing the characteristics of the main character of the story, a simple husband which his own insecurities …show more content…

We see in the wife how straightforward she is but at times she cannot express herself fully just like the husband she does this when she gets upset and throws the potato to the ground in anger. Makes it feel as there is an underlying problem going on that the reader does not know about. Robert means hope to the wife because he is one of the oldest friends she has. She and her husband do not have mutual friends and she hopes for him to recognize the blind man as a possibility for him to make friends and share something in common to bring them closer she emphasizes that if he loves her that he would be nice to Robert therefor it is visible the pressure that is out in the husband to perform well when he meets Robert and understand that he is a dear friend of his wife. The wife trying to pay attention to Robert forgets how her husband feels about this situation and underestimates the narrator feelings. In the short story we realize that contact is always the best connection you can have, examples are when the blind says this beats the tapes when he is talking to the wife also at the end when the husband creates the painting of the cathedral instead of dictating it to Robert. For the narrator the routine the monotony, and his own limited vision leads him to encounter an experience that he once never felt before it was describing a picture to a blind man without having to speak a word. Meanwhile this was going on the wife had fallen asleep and all of this progress between them was occurring. Again, something amazing that is not visible. The ending concludes abruptly because it does not say if the husband and Robert became good friends or the wife gets closer to the husband because of his newly relationship with one of her friends or if he just went back to being superficial and at times ignorant. In spite of the narrator's jokes, and exaggerated assumptions. He is more blind than

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