6/3/2023 0 Comments Cathedral robert carverOnly a few hours pass because the action takes place in one evening. The action takes place in an average family’s living room. Robert calls the narrator ‘Bub,’ but otherwise the reader has no name for the narrator and the narrator’s wife is not named. The three characters are the narrator, his wife and his wife’s friend Robert who has come for a visit. There are only three characters in the story and the two men have most of the attention. The short story “Cathedral” has a no-frills setting. How the Narrator Communicates to the Reader The thoughts that go through the narrator’s mind also help us to understand the character of the narrator. The dialogues between the narrator and his wife and the narrator and Robert are very important to understanding the story. “Beulah! That’s a name for a colored woman. One of the prejudices he expresses when his wife tells him that Robert’s wife was named Beulah. Sklenicka describes the narrator as “a typical bumbling, addictive character with a load of human stains prejudices blunt-mindedness about his wife’s concerns and needs, a large appetite for food, drink, and marijuana” (372). Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” is a small intimate story, one which effectively revolves around two characters – the narrator, a regular Average Joe, and Robert, a blind man who is a friend of the narrator’s wife.
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