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Morgan PesanteProfessor Katherin NolteEnglish 232617 December 2013Raymond Carver Cathedral1. In Feathers, the somewhat inactive and solemn dinner the two couples share impacts prick and Frans lives, as that night transpires into an attempted deviate within their marriage. While Fran pinpoints that evening as an immediate shift, Jack believes the change came later, after their child was born. Jack recalls, The change came laterand when it came, it was like something that happened to other people, not something that could have happened to us (Carver). end-to-end the dinner, the author parallels Jack and Fran to Bud and Olla. Together, Bud and Olla exhibit characteristics that Jack and Frans relationship lacks love, affection and the family they have created with Joey and Harold. Jack and Fran strive for this typesetters case of bond, and although they attempt to achieve it after being given a glance at the dinner, they fall short. As much as Jack and Fran neediness to aspire to b e like Bud and Olla, they never reach that conterminous level. They are never able to utilize the peacock feathers.2. The ending of A Small, Good Thing results in Ann, Howard and the baker sitting together, eating and auditory modality to the bakers life story. Although Ann and Howard come into the bakery with fury, the baker opens up to them because he sees how much they are suffering from the loss of their son, Scotty. Ann is suddenly supperless not only because she has physical hunger, but also because she is aching for unrestrained connection after the loss of her son. The baker may not be able to understand their individual pain, but by revealing his ingest agony he is allowing Ann and Howard to begin to process their sufferings as well. It didnt be cured _or_ healed them, but his small g... ... of Cathedral, it becomes apparent that the narrators affection for the filmdom man has positively shifted as they sit down and begin to slip away the duomo together. After a fa iled attempt to explain what a cathedral is to the blind man, the narrator is surprised at the encouragement Robert gives. Robert asks the narrator to nearly his eyes, to ultimately trust him, and the narrator listens. My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I k new(a) that. But I didnt feel like I was inside anything, the narrator stated (Carver). This text suggests that the narrator was not ineluctably concerned about what he was drawing, but on the feeling he was experiencing during that moment. The narrator is no longer isolated, but open to a new freedom (Esch). This freedom is beyond what is visible and Robert, the blind man, reiterates this by his front end and lack of sight.