In the 1980’s no one could predict what was to come. Ronald Reagan started the decade as president of the United States, taking us into a decade of change. Gas prices started to plunge as trade was open up from the Middle East and US drilling efforts in Alaska increased ending the petroleum crisis that dominated the 70’s. It is at this time when automobiles started to get better gas mileage and people were living farther away from home that the suburbs come into their own prominence and start to
Oct. 2012 Cathedral In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the author introduces three different characters: the narrator, the narrator’s wife, and a blind man named Robert. Throughout the short story, there is tension between the narrator and his wife and Robert. The narrator is jealous of Robert and is very uncomfortable with a blind man staying the night in his home. (Carver 2368) Robert is able to get through to the narrator when they sit down together and draw a picture of a cathedral
Raymond Carver planted a message into the mind of his audience that imagination prevents stereotypical blindness. This message is important because Carver touched on a current problem that we face in our daily lives known as prejudice. This problem is caused by stereotype disease and the cure for it is imagination because people will be more sensitive to how others feel. In “Cathedral”, Carver showed how Bub, as a sighted person, was struggling with stereotypical blindness and Robert, as a blind
already troubled marriage. Author Raymond Carver illustrates how finding oneself must be done alone and not through a lover. In So Much Water Close to Home, the rape story covers up and yet still accentuates the disconnection within the household between Stuart and Claire. Carver uses the background story to unveil problems within the home and marriage. Throughout the story there are major conflicts that act as decoys towards the real problem. The real problem that Carver is trying to convey to the audience