In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” the narrator is faced with living a few days with someone he considers a stranger. This story is a fine example of how characters can and do change as the story progresses. Sometimes these changes occur through actual feelings, and sometimes they can occur through impairments that the character acquires as the story progresses. It is somewhat unclear in this story as to whether the narrator actually comes to like his blind guest, or if he is just drunk, high, and does not realize what exactly he is doing. In the beginning, the narrator does not want this blind guest visiting him and his wife.
Some of these approaches to therapy show healthy examples and perspectives originally developed to enlighten the patient or assist in overcoming unwanted behavior, but later become very un-ethical and abusive on Dr. Marvin’s behalf. Analysis of Traits and Features What About Bob focuses on two main characters. Bob is the patient who was passed along to Dr. Marvin for reasons that are made apparent shortly into the film. Bob Wiley is a middle aged man whom is stricken with fear of just about everything and has severe anxiety about normal everyday activities. He can barely motivate himself to leave home, without experiencing Panic attacks, an excruciating experience of terror; about half of panic-disordered patients develop the symptoms of agoraphobia (Gassner, 2004).
His life became more complicated when he entered college and had to contend with a roommate. Now he has no privacy, so instead of trying to explain his tics to roommate, he tries to hide them. He makes excuses like, “the doctors tell me that if I knock it around hard enough, there is a good chance the brain tumor will shrink to the point where they won’t have to operate (Sedaris, p 368).” Also, he imagines conspiracies to eliminate his roommate; unluckily, he must cope with it because his roommate tries to find out his tics. As a result, Sedaris gets rid of his weird actions by smoking to be normal. It seems his roommate gave him an invisible power to overcome his nervous habits.
Bone doesn’t have family support. One of the reasons why Bone doesn’t have a family support is that His stepdad abuses him, as he says“the nights he’d sneaked into my room and made me touch his d*** and suck on it” (pg. 195). Abuse leads to some psychological problems. The problem with Bone is that he is scared of his stepdad.
Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236). Over and over Steven kept reminding her that John would not be coming home tonight but that he would not be coming at all. Ann began to be afraid of Steven but then she knew that he was a safe friend but he still had a fright among him, “there was something strange, almost terrifying, about this Steven and his quiet unrelenting smile” (237). The mood had some fear in it, what should Ann do. Steven seemed to be acting as if something was going to happen.
Why do we have to pay for other peoples mistakes? In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie Zits deals with many disappointments in life. One of his biggest disappointments is not having a father or someone that loves him like he wants to be love, “My father was a drunk, too more in love with beer and vodka than with my mother and me. He vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born” (Alexie4). This most of been hard for him to know that his dad didn’t care for him and that he only cared about his beer and vodka.
Because of his position rather than his brother’s, he experiences jealousy and is a victim of favoritism. His brother is a veteran, and to his father this means a lot. This meant that Frank could get away with everything while Wes was scolded. Wes reveals this jealousy when he says, “I wonder if he was supposed to stay at the hospital.”(p.36) When Wes
Both honest mistakes that he didn’t even know he made. The ignorance shown towards Lennie in the novel was due to the time period and the people’s lack of knowledge. People in the story like “The boss” just thought that Lennie wasn’t smart because he just didn’t talk much unless it was to his best friend George. There was ignorance in Raymond because his brother thought that he could remove Ray from his schedules at his home and take him with him. The Ignorance was that Ray needed those schedules or he will have a fit.
To move forth to the second point, we also come to the idea that Gatsby couldn’t achieve his dream, for he was struggling with the concept of the dream, and we realize this by seeing him trying to love a memory that ceased to exist. As we can be led in, we see in the end of chapter 6 that Gatsby throws a party, but he notices Daisy didn’t like it. As F. Scott Fitzgerald states, “’Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously ‘why of course you can!’” (116) Nick tells Gatsby (in summarization, this is not how he said it specifically) not to feel bad about the past, because you can’t repeat it. Gatsby, in reply, states the quote previously noted. The significance of this quote is that it displays us the feelings Gatsby has for his memories.
For example, Charlie begins to realize that the surgery that was given to him has a possibility of backfiring and the effects of that would be for him to return to his old state of mind. As a result, he decided that he wants to see his parents before time runs out. In addition, after having the surgery, his coworkers pulls a stunt on charlies drink and left him at the bar which humiliated charlie. Therefore, Charlie realizes that these people aren't really his friends. Finally, after his IQ starts to drop rapidly and he returns to the former Charlie, he starts to realize that Ms. Kinnian, fell in love with him.