... ease and abundance and fast communications came an erosion of regional differences, a merged culture that many artists saw as a threat. Authors such as Raymond Carter began to write what they knew, the simple and the logical, by using minimalism. Carver's story Cathedral opens up with a line stating, "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, was on his way to spend ... the night. His wife had died-. This is just the first example of Carver's technique in which he chops up his thought process in order to come across as clean and uncomplicated. Carver's stories focus on ordinary lower-...

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