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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jan 24, 2013
- 3 min
Carver’s Cathedral: Different Interpretations at Different Stages of Life
Heidi Moore writes wonderfully re-imagined modern stories based on Greek mythology, among other things. She is also a medical doctor and non-fiction feature writer, as well as mother and wife and friend. It’s a pleasure to host her here on the blog as she takes on Carver’s ending of Cathedral: * * * Raymond Carver has always been one of my favorite writers. If I could choose a style to emulate, it would be the minimalist. In Cathedral, Carver writes sentences like, “She told
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jan 23, 2013
- 4 min
Naming the Voice: Prejudice and Change in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
Clifford Garstang wrote two of the best books I read last year (links at the end of this post) and I am happy to host his contribution to the discussion of Carver’s classic story, Cathedral. * * * There are two aspects of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” that I always raise in a discussion with students. The more important of these is the voice of the narrator, but it also strikes me that the characters’ names are also significant. We see just three characters in the story: the h
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Eric Sheridan Wyatt
- Jan 22, 2013
- 3 min
The Effective Use of Authorial Judgment in Carver’s Cathedral
<img class="size-medium wp-image-1311 lazyload" alt="Brad Windhauser is an author, teacher, and blogger." src="https://ericswyatt.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/brad.jpg?w=265" width="265" height="300" /> Brad Windhauser is an author, teacher, and blogger. We will start our week with Raymond Carver’s story, Cathedral, with an essay about the choices Carver made, as written by my friend, Brad Windhauser. * * * Authors make several decisions when it comes to choices they make in a
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