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An Analysis of Cathedral
Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" appears to be a simple visit between a man's wife and her long time friend Robert, but Carver is essentially creating a newly established friendship between Robert and Bub to show stereotypes and barriers can be broken. Carver's portrayal of Bub as a simple, ignorant, and stereotypical man, who easily labels things as impotent or useless, is used to show how all people can build and create stereotypes around people we don't know. Instead of labeling, judging, and creating barriers without fully understanding who we are judging, Carver is suggesting we engage these people without a biased to find out who they really vs. what they seem to be.
In "Cathedral" the narrator Bub immediately stereotypes Robert once he finds out he is blind. People develop stereotypes when they are unable or sometimes unwilling to obtain all of the information they would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. His......

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