... draws, and in so doing, teaches the narrator how to experience a cathedral. By so doing, Robert facilitates growth in the narrator. Themes Alienation and Loneliness Like the characters in many of Carver's works, the main characters experience, or have experienced, alienation and loneliness. The ... the image of the cathedral suggests the transformative powers that such a structure holds. Epiphany William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman in A Handbook to Literature define epiphany as "Literally a manifestation or showing-forth, usually of some divine being." They further explain that the word ...

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• Approx Pages: 45
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• Grade Level: High School