Cathedral (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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The title story of Carver's third collection is typical of how his technique and thematic concerns changed after his personal life became more stable. The story contains much more exposition and discussion, more background and efforts at clarification, than the stories in Carver's first two cryptic collections. “Cathedral” is told by a first-person narrator, a young man who resents the visit of an old friend of his wife—a blind man for whom the wife once read.

Unlike Carver's earlier stories, which focus primarily on the immediate situation detached from its background,...

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