Cathedral “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is illustrated on the irony of two men. One with physical sight but is spiritually blind and another which is physically blind but has spiritual insight. The main characters are the narrator and his wife, who are both nameless in the story and the blind man Robert. In the beginning of the story the narrator is nothing but with the help of the blind man he becomes something at the end of the story. The narrator is pathologically jealous, smart, witty, and insecure.
The resolution in the play was accomplished when Boy Willie decides to keep the piano for Berniece and his family. After fighting the ghost and Berniece facing her fear and playing the piano, all are able to see the importance the heirloom has.
Just after he learns of the blind man’s impending visit, the narrator states, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (20). These thoughts carry on through the story as the narrator begins to give the background details on his wife’s relationship with the blind man. When the narrator describes a poem his wife wrote about an experience she had when the blind man touched her face, he says, “I can remember I didn’t think much of the poem” (20).
Robert, an old friend from his wife teaches the narrator a great lesson about life and how “learning never ends.” Robert opens the eyes of the narrator. The short story “Cathedral” is about “the blind leading the blind” in the sense that Robert, a physically blind person, leads the narrator, a spiritually blind person, to a greater understanding about life. One of the reasons the narrator is consider a spiritually blind person is because he displays lack of understanding towards blind people. The reader is able to see that the narrator is prejudice towards blind people. In the story, the narrator says “and his being blind bothered me.” The narrator is a reflection of prejudice and the stereotypes in society.
All my plays are rewriting that same story. I’m not sure what it means, other than life is hard.” This is a quote from August Wilson, author of the play The Piano Lesson. The play is not only centered around this given theme, but also the importance of family tradition. This is displayed by the butting of heads of brother and sister, Berniece and Boy Willie. In The Piano Lesson he displays multiple characters who follow this quote.
The dialog was about how the narrator did not have in blind friends and with sarcasm he says, “Maybe I could take him bowling,” (Carver) the author shows the narrator lack of understanding of his wife friendship with the blind man. Maybe because of his limited experience with a blind person and understand where he is coming from. This lack of understand by the narrator gives the reader a little insight on the relationship be him and his wife. Where the husband feels like an outsider when Robert is joined them for the night. Due to the fact, he did take the time to understand his wife and her
Maestro- Task 1 1. This quote is from Paul’s father talking about Darwin, using a quote from Banjo Patterson. This is due to the rain ending him and Paul’s mother play the piano, and the effects that the humidity are having Paul’s father. 2. This quote from the book is about the gap between good and great pianists.
It mentions that Leroy once bought his wife a new piano as a gift and how happy she was and lovingly she touched it as she played it. The piano symbolizes the love he has for her and how over time as she stop playing the piano and their love starts to fade. She was gental and caring to the keys as she was to the marrage before everything changed. The past tense of the sentence show the fact that that was then and this is now, and their love is gone. :… He used to stay in the house with Norma Jean.. Now he is home alone most of the time.” It is clear that she doesn’t want to spend time with him like they use to.
When they get to the ranch looking for the job the one that talks is always George, because Lennie have an issue in his brain that’s why he acts as a little kid. George talks to the owner of the ranch and he told him that Lennie is his cousin and his mother left him so he have to take care of the poor Lennie. I make the analysis and I get to the conclusion that mice in the title, and in the book are Lennie because mice can’t make decision by itself. I compare Lennie like the mice that the scientist uses in the laboratories to make experiments on them, because the nervous system is similar to a human one. The scientists use the mice in the laboratory to make experiments on them with many things, like medicine to see how they react to it.
Cathedral by: Raymond Carver Raymond Carver wrote the short story “Cathedral” which is about a blind man who is very handy at everything but that he is blind he needs some help with some things. The narrator’s wife takes up the job to help him read reports and case studies. The two become very close then the narrator’s wife had to move away cause her first husband was in the army so they needed to travel but the blind man and the wife never lost touch with each other. The narrator did not really like the relationship between the two he was jealous of it because him and his wife were never that close. The blind man came to visit the wife and the narrator.