ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Raymond Carver, Strawberry Pie, Consumerism
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Carver is known as a minimalist: however, cathedral is much more complicated than its language may make it out to be. Cathedral is very accessible: there"s a character arc of the husband but by the end, it"s not very clear what exactly that arc means, the husband is very unlikable/problematic. Carver is playing with this for a particular purpose. Carver wants to average reader to be able to relate to this character, or at. He may be trying to make sense of the situation. It makes him relatable: he describes his wife"s suicide attempt in just a few sentences. My wife filled me in with more detail than i cared to know (carver: lonely. On both sides: if you [narrator] love me [wife] you can do this for me. But if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit, i"d make him feel comfortable. " [ ] i [narrator] don"t have any blind friends" [ ] you.
