... from his close companions. It also reveals Patrick's thoughts and characteristic qualities. Patrick Lewis is a lost soul and a searcher on a constant journey. In chapter three, ironically titled, "[T]he Searcher", Patrick is searching for Ambrose Small but that is merely a metaphor for his vocation. "He searched out things, he ... lives. Ondaatje weaves the story around characters that have chosen to take on that responsibility. "His own life was no longer a single story but part of a mural, which was a falling together of accomplices. Patrick saw the wondrous night web- all these fragmen...

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... #2 In the following essay, Bullock argues that many of Carver's protagonists are concerned with dilemmas of masculine identity, most notably the narrator in "Cathedral." In "The Castle of the Self," a chapter of his popular psychoanalytic study of the myths of masculinity, What a Man's Gotta Do, Antony Easthope (1990) explores the way that "in the dominant myth the masculine ego is generally ... fear that a woman unseen has escaped control and can express herself in whatever way she pleases. The narrator's fear of blindness, then, suggests that control through vision is an important par...

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