![]() ![]() ![]() One little spoiler I can give out: if I had a friend I wanted to feel welcome and really take a load off, I'd copy the recipe in the story: oven-grilled pork tenderloin with scalloped taters and red wine, followed by dessert and then a joint. I related so much to the emotionally volatile main character. I read it during Uni English, and it rocked me to my core, how humanely and gracefully Carver could handle the subject of men talking with other men about feelings. ![]() "Cathedral" is feminist too (constructive feminism that erases divides), showing how men suffer from jealousy and turn to passive-aggression and sarcasm when feeling backed into a corner just like anyone else. Kids and teens may have trouble relating to the emotional themes because unless you went to fucking war at age 14 you don't fully see the real bottom of these themes until you are 40-45. Suffice to say that it's a fantastically dry-witted story about an unremarkable event on the face of it, but the real action is between the lines, a universe lives inbetween those lines.Įveryone should read Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" short story, but also afterwards the wikipage for it, so you don't miss any of the context. I won't talk about the plot details because you deserve to go in blind re: setting and characters. ![]()
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