... , is unable to describe a cathedral. The blind man teaches the narrator to "see" the cathedral through drawing. Summary The narrator, or storyteller, of Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" opens by saying, "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the ... , however, that the reader is supposed to be tracking in this story so much as the changes in the narrator's perspective. The author, Raymond Carver, is well-known for minimalist fiction, a kind of storytelling that gained popularity in the early 1980s. Writers of minimalist fiction are generally ... ...

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Introduction Raymond Carver is said to be one of the most influential American short-story writer and poet in the second half of 20th century, a major force ... interesting to analyze the story literarily and support our discussion with evidences from the context and the critical opinions about Carver and his works. Biography Born in Clatskanie, Oregon, Raymond Carver in 1938, at the age of three with his parents moved to Yakima, Washington, where his father found a work as a sawmill worker. In his early ... Calif (Encyclopedia Britannica). Later, he published French editions of Cathedral (1...

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