Catherdral

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Quiet, Please? (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk When Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Price in 1984), and Where I’m Calling From in 1988, when he was introduced into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in August of that year.

“Cathedral” was basically about the in conformism of the narrator about the visit of one of his wife’s good friend, a blind man that would expend with them a few days after the d

Carver’s work was determinate by two major periods than helped me to understand the differences and changes in terms of his work. The first period, “his first life” was composed of the period of time between his first steeps as writer, the beginning publication process of some of his literature work, and his alcohol vice. Even if there was not a related connection between his success and his vice, the alcoholism and publishing processes of his work apparently began at the same time. In one of his interviews he recognized his relationship to alcohol as only destructive, after being asked how alcohol worked against or in favour of his work. Obviously my drinking experiences helped me write several stories that have to do with alcoholism. But the fact that I went through that and was able to write those stories was nothing short of miracle. No, I don’t see anything coming out of my drinking experiences except waste and pain and misery. (Gentry 115).

ead of his wife. The story was all about this man’s experience before and during the blind man visit, perhaps the most interesting part of the story was how well elaborated and full of details it was. I could almost feel all this man fears and emotions related with the presence of a blind person on his own house. It truly impacted me because sometimes we are not familiar with any kind of illness or physical effects and we simply don’t know how to react to these events. At the end of the story, Carver left us

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