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It's Really Something In Cathedral By Raymond Carver
“It’s really something” this quote written in “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, and the husband was the one that said this quote after he closed his eyes and imagined the Cathedral. This short story is talking about a wife and husband living together, and they were visited by an old friend named Robert (a blind man). Robert was very talented person; he was very smart and very emotional. So the husband didn’t know how to deal with the blind man Robert, he never experienced this before, so that’s why he was little confused about it. The husband had some difficulties dealing with Robert, but his wife use to calm him down and explain to him how to deal with him. In addition, his story have a really important theme which is the talent that god gave
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