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    The story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver is about one man’s understanding and acceptance of a blind man. The narrator represents the story’s dominant theme of overcoming prejudice of the blind through personal experience as well as mutual respect. The narrator‚ who remains nameless‚ holds deeply unfounded beliefs and stereotypes of what a blind person should be‚ yet over a relatively short period of time he develops a bond with the blind man‚ whom at first he privately mocked. The narrator’s preconceived

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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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    Growing up! In the short story “Everything Stuck to Him” by Raymond Carver‚why did he tell the story. A boy and a girl were sitting down‚ and the girl wanted to hear a story when she was younger. The boy tells her a story that was mainly about her mom and dad‚ but with her still in the story. The boy told this story to show how hard it is to make decisions‚ and shows how family is a lot in life that love each other. Also how the boy is still growing up and is learning about being a father! First

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    “They’re Not Your Husband” is a short story by Raymond Carver‚ where he writes about the man named Earl Ober‚ who is an unemployed salesman‚ with his wife (Doreen) working as a waitress‚ at a 24-hour coffee shop. After a night of drinking as he usually does he goes to see the place where his wife works. Here he is treated like a nuisance by his wife. Two men start talking about his wife’s weight and this bothers Earl greatly. He decides to let Doreen know that she (he) has a problem with her weight

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    in the US think they do not fit in their jobs so they feel frequently dissatisfied in their work. In Raymond Carver’s “Vitamins‚” the major theme of this story is about dissatisfaction. Nobody seems to have passion in their life‚ and no one does not actually dream about what else they want to be. The unnamed narrator confesses to his wife Patti about his feeling that "maybe I don’t dream" (Carver 251)‚ and he also tells readers that he "didn’t care" (251) what goes on in his dreams. Even Patti‚ the

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    a short story written in 1963 by Raymond Carver. “The Cathedral” includes three characters: the narrator‚ the narrator’s wife‚ and a blind friend of the wife’s‚ Robert. Robert has an effect on the narrator from the very beginning but the effect changes as the story develops. At the beginning of the story‚ the narrator is very bitter about his wife’s blind friend. As the story begins to develop the narrator starts to treat Robert‚ the blind man‚ with more respect. At the end of the story‚ the narrator

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    anything greater in life. The story is ultimately about transcendence; that is‚ an existence beyond the limitations of physical things. What Robert has that the narrator lacks is a sight into the wonder of things‚ the potential for greatness and tenderness in humanity‚ and the curiosity that can make one truly alive and free even if one is limited by physical factors. To understand the narrator‚ it is helpful to analyze the masterful first-person voice of the story. The narration is arguably one

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    sentence of Raymond Carver’s “Popular Mechanics.” This sentence gives the reader a hint about something happened in the relation of couple in the story and it is falling apart. Then Carver says‚ “cars slushed by the street outside‚ where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too.” Now this sentence makes the picture little clear‚ that there is some darkness in the house due to something sad and depressing going on. The beginning of this story is very dramatic‚ Carver uses the whether

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    extreme. “Popular Mechanics‚” written by Raymond Carver‚ is a concise story in which a man and woman go through a separation. The process of their separation brings out their incessantly blatant resentment toward each other. The result of the couple’s tensions is selfish behavior. To develop the theme of selfishness‚ Raymond Carver portrayed the relationship between the man and woman as a competition between rivals‚ and displayed them as unsympathetic. Carver explicates the couple’s relationship as

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    Neighbors "Neighbors is a short story written by Raymond Carver in 1988. It is from the collection of short stories "Short cuts". The short story is in brief about the married couple Bill and Arlene Miller‚ who lives opposite the married couple Harriet and Jim stone. Bill and Arlene constantly see themselves in the light of the Stones’ happy life. Bill is a bookkeeper and Arlene is a secretary‚ while Jim is a salesman for a machine-parts firm. In the story the Stones are going on a business trip

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