ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - The Yellow Wallpaper, Raymond Carver
17 Apr 2013
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Blind man is coming over to stay with them (husband and wife) Blind man and husband draw a cathedral together. Husband closes his eyes and has an experience. Question of accuracy of vision, the truthfulness of vision, according to states of mind. Idea of seeing clearly, seeing well, seeing larger and more precisely than one otherwise. Sonny"s blues: actual drugs in two different stories (smoking and heroin); Moments when the author is gathering his forces around some sense of arrival; is finding something, coming to its point of focus, the world that he finds himself in seems like his experience has come to a discovery. Vision, voice and touch (when he"s touching his hand when he"s drawing the cathedral) carver is developing many of the senses, the metaphor of making a connection of touching someone and being touched. The consciousness in the story that it"s a dangerous business building a cathedral by watching the tv.
