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Rachel Corey 2/7/13 DeStefano EN 12 The Blind Leading the Blind Blindness is an affliction that causes a person to possess the inability to see or to have the sense of sight. In the short story “Cathedral”‚ we meet an average‚ suburban husband and his wife‚ who have a troubled marriage. The husband is less than thrilled to meet his wife’s blind friend‚ Robert‚ who she has been exchanging tapes with for the past ten years. We feel sympathetic towards Robert because of his handicap‚ but as
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Relationships in Cathedral and The Story of an Hour Relationships are easy to make‚ but not necessarily easy to maintain. There are many events in a person’s individual life that has an impact on the way they treat or interact with another person. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” there are significant similarities and differences between the three couples. Given the time period that these stories were written there are many more similarities than
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Blind Men of Carver’s Cathedral A person’s ability to see is often taken for granted. This is certainly the case for the narrator in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver‚ for surely only someone who did not take sight for granted‚ would feel so strongly about those who are sightless. But sometimes blind doesn’t just mean without sight. Sometimes blind can be a metaphor; an indication of a far more serious weakness. Although the title suggests that the story is about a cathedral‚ it is really about two
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A PLACE FOR THEM‚ A PLACE FOR US The choir of St. Paul’s‚ Cathedrals of England and Wales “With a few exceptions‚ city churches that were rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 were rebuilt under the direction of Christopher Wren” who combined the renaissance and baroque styles to create St. Paul’s cathedral‚ an empathetic masterpiece. The sheltering embrace of the dome as one walks through the nave is appeasing yet humbling‚ creating a sense of place comparable to Bernini’s St. Peter’s colonnade
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2012). Something to consider‚ both country’s systems for health insurance are totally denationalized and the two structures have resulted in total opposite outcomes. All health care costs in the Netherlands was 10.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) compared to 17% for the U. S. in 2009 (Thomas & Lawrence‚ 2012). The U. S. remains the most expensive in the world when it comes to health care services and both countries extend personalized health care through the insurers but the Dutch health care facilities
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In the short story Cathedral by Raymond Carter‚ the narrator is jealous of a blind man that has been touching his wife’s face. He seems to not understand his needs with his situation and with his background of not liking his job or the way his relationship is with his wife he becomes more insecure. As they begin bonding in some way Robert asks the narrator to explain to him what a cathedral is in order for him to visualize it. However‚ he wants it done through a drawing. With this the narrator begins
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The narrator of the story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver has never met someone who was blind until Robert came to visit. Robert has been a friend of the narrator ’s wife for the past ten years and is spending the night because he has not seen her for such a long time‚ but this bothers the narrator. He does not regard a blind man as a normal person with whom he can relate with‚ and is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of having to socialize with one for an entire evening. The narrator is stereotypical
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“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is set in 1983 in the narrator’s house somewhere In New York. The story starts with the narrator telling us about his wife’s old friend that was blind. The narrator tells us about how the blind man’s wife had died. The blind man then contacted the narrator’s wife. Arrangements were made and then the blind man was coming to spend the night at the narrators house. He would come to New York from his in laws in Connecticut by a 5-hour train ride. The blind and the wife always
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perfect like music should sound unlike the crudeness of Wagner’s. The orchestras in each opera were very different from each other. In “The Valkyrie” by Wagner the music piece was very emotional and would set the feeling of what was happening. Compared to ‘Carmen’ by Bizet which is very soothing and peaceful Wagner’s
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