... has changed his understanding of life. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything." No longer hostile to Robert, no longer aware of Robert's blindness, the narrator experiences the possibility of change in his life. The unnamed male narrator, ... is looking, and the narrator explains, "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything." Then he tells the blind man, "It's really something." Analysis Cathedral is a story about how new experiences can change and broaden an indi...

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• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... does, and he completes the drawing with his eyes closed. The experience feels amazing. Robert tells him to open his eyes, but he doesn't. The narrator doesn't feel like he's "inside anything" now, and he likes the feeling. Something happens to him that changes his understanding of life. "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But ... I didn't feel like I was inside anything." He is no longer unfriendly to Robert; no longer aware of Robert's blindness. The narrator experiences the possibility of change in his life. Setting The setting of the ... has drawn, but instea...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: High School

... , descendants of a strict Puritan heritage and the Maule's (descendants of paupers). In the novel the house becomes personified. The house becomes a character that symbolizes the values and feelings of those inside. "The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... vitality of life. Fitzgerald seems to be warning us all that dull routines and even duller smoothness of the idle rich will always create people who are bored and dead inside. The problem that faces the beautiful is damning. To work for money is to enter the real world where people have to sweat. Anthony refuses to work or sweat. He ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... he believes to be one of the Proavitoi women, Nokoma. She begins to tell him stories of how her race does not ever die. All the old people just stay inside and don't ever go out. Ceran decides to investigate this phenomenon a little further. He talks to one of Nokoma's "nine hundred grandmothers" and learns that as the Proavitoi get older ... ...

• Word Count: 2850
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... contrast to the rings serene purity'. The literal grave provided Miranda with a treasure however so did the act of killing and skinning the pregnant rabbit. After seeing the baby rabbits inside of their mother Miranda become quietly agitated' while looking at the bloody heap' as she was becoming aware of a females position in the cycle of life. She understood a little of ... ...

• Word Count: 2806
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate