Read the short story “ Cathedral“ and answer the questions
1.Use your own words to respond to each question. Do NOT quote or paraphrase sources from the internet.
2.Write a paragraph of five or more sentences in response to each prompt.
“Cathedral”
Raymond Carver
- How does the narrator feel about the blind man at the beginning of the story? Why do you think the narrator feels this way?
- How do the narrator’s feelings toward the blind mind change by the end of the story? Why do you think the narrator’s feelings change?
- In the last lines of the story the narrator states:
My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.
“It’s really something,” I said.
How do you interpret this ending to the story? What does the narrator mean that he didn’t feel like he was inside anything?
- How might blindness act as a metaphor in Carver’s story?