Pessimism and insecurity fly at breakneck speed with overwhelming
abundance to and fro around the narrator throughout Raymond Carver’s
“Cathedral”.
However, character growth and an overall change in attitude also make
an appearance as fashionably late as...
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Pessimism and insecurity fly at breakneck speed with overwhelming
abundance to and fro around the narrator throughout Raymond Carver’s
“Cathedral”.
However, character growth and an overall change in attitude also make
an appearance as fashionably late as it may be.
The lower more sorrowful and
disheartening side of human nature is seen flourishing for the larger part of the
short story but it is torn asunder by a cataclysmic interaction between our narrator
and, ironically, a blind man.
The blind man, whom is named Robert, allows a vehicle for the narrator to
reach new understanding of himself; to shed the normal constraints of his
unbecoming self, and achieve a better appreciation of his ability to simply function.
This also, we could assume, allows for a better relationship between the narrator
and his wife, whom until the trio were together, he viewed with little more than
apprehension and moderate distrust.
It is beautiful that what could be considered a
life’s worth of pessim
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