Raymond Carver's Short Story Cathedral

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This week I am writing about Raymond Carver’s short story Cathedral. The main conflict of the story is the Narrator dealing his prejudices. His wife invites a blind man named Robert and he struggles with his ideas being wrong. Robert slowly cracks the Narrator’s shell by trying to get him to open up his mind. After a few drinks and some pie, they slowly start to connect to each other. After Robert shows him a different way of seeing, the Narrator himself starts to see outside of himself.
What I felt was a pretty important scene was “He said, “I do now, my dear. There’s a first time for everything. But I don’t feel anything yet.”’ The moment when Robert took the cannabis really shows his character. He was willing to extend an extra hand to

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Raymond Carver Cathedral

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Raymond Carver who is the author of the short story “Cathedral” is widely known for his writings of common life issues that are seldom perceived. Within “Cathedral”, a blind man named Robert visits an old friend and her husband. The husband, who is the narrator of this particular story tells this story flatly from his point of view. Based on Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” the overall theme of blindness is prevalent within Robert’s life as well as the narrator’s because it symbolizes the difference…

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One’s actions will always speak louder than words. This being said, in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” there are three main characters; the narrator, his wife, and their guest of honor, Robert. Robert does an excellent job of portraying this quote very cautiously towards the end of the short story. He is visiting the narrator’s wife after the passing of his beloved wife, Beulah. The narrator, whom plays the role of Raymond Carver, is terribly jealous of Robert. His wife has been non-stop talking about…

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Symbolism In Raymond Carver's Cathedral

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