TOPIC PROPOSAL
Name: Frances Jane Ramos
Grade 11 - ABM Cotrugli
A Critique of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral": A Literary Work
Raymond's Cathedral is a short story that we have read in our Reading
and Writing class, and I'd like to give some critique on it. We simply gave the
elements of this particular story, thus at this moment I'd like to review or
critique it as well. “Cathedral" is a short story by Raymond Carver that describes
the narrator’s initial jealousy of and eventual bonding with a blind man named
Robert. The Meaning of “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver was an interesting and
unusual one. Raymond Carver wrote the interesting short story, “Cathedral”
about a blind man who can ‘see’ and the narrator, a man who has his sight, but
is blind. The narrator is the protagonist in Carver’s story and is seen as a
terrible communicator. Carver purposely has the character start off in a bad
place and end up in a better one. The author characterizes the narrator and
uses the plot of the story to show the concept that someone can have all
senses and still be disconnected from reality and not understanding of their
surroundings. I will review this work from a technical standpoint or from a
Formalism approach.
