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Raymond Carver's Cathedral

As with many short stories, Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" only has a few pages to develop his main character and create a scenario he or she must learn from or achieve something from or change because of. In such a short amount of space, word choice is integral in constructing a solid impression of the characters and their personalities in the reader's mind. Carver's simple use of language and sentence structure combined with his choice for point of view creates an intriguing tone and believable character interaction.
This story, written as the thoughts of the narrator, is about an old blind friend of his wife's coming to visit for the first time. The story focuses on the narrator's cynicism toward the blind man and the way his wife seems to look up to him. Through out the visit there is halting interaction between the blind man and the narrator, however in the end the narrator experiences something he never could have imagined. Through the eyes of a blind man, he gains a better......


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Approximate Word Count: 943
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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