On the basis of Minimalism, this essay analyses the significance, language, and style in Raymond Carver’s short story Why Don't You Dance? In the story, Carver uses everyday dialogue to describe the problems of ordinary people in a mundane way. The characters are probably from working class, they drink, feel desperate about their failure of life and are socially marginalized. Carver wants to “return the reader back to the real world” (Scofield 2006, p. 226). Although Carver’s style is labelled
In 1984 the story “Cathedral” was written by Raymond Carver. Mr. Carver had written several different poems and stories previous to this one, but unlike some of his others, this one ends on a more optimistic note. In this story the narrator is very oblivious to his own blindness. He is not physically blind but he has placed many limitations on himself that prevented him from opening his eyes to other things. It helps to analyze a story when you want to better understand it. The story “Cathedral”
An epiphany is when a character has a moment of sudden revelation or insight, which are important because it is the turning point of a character and when everything makes sense to he or she. In the stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the main characters experience epiphanies and come to a realization in their lives which suggests that no matter how set someone is in his or