The husband in Raymond Carver’sCathedral doesn’t want the blind man over because he held negative stereotypes about blind people. This changed when he spent some time with his wife’s friend. Had some of his generic ideas about blind people been positive then he would have no objection. His change from the beginning of the story […]
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Minimalism Here you all should have at least a small idea of what the smallest sentence can be. Later we will find that silence is a tool often used by the smallest writers. Often in these cases, minimalism is concerned with the implications of a single movement or mode: a space of occupation (and awareness) […]
Raymond Carver is one of the all-time greatest writers of modern short history in America. His story “The Cathedral” is just one fantastic example of his genius. In “Cathedral,” Sculptor skillfully uses modern elements of fractured narrative, nihilism, and an anti-hero to tell the story of one eye-opening evening in his principal’s life. Modern literature […]
In his film, Short Cuts, Robert Altman uses several techniques to bring the selected short stories of Raymond Carver together into a cohesive film. These mechanisms, however, are not simply devices to keep the stories in continuity. Altman masterfully uses these tools not only to show the audience that the stories are related to each […]
Minimalism Simply put, minimalism strips a work of art down to its most basic features. To sum up, in which it is clearly understood what the author is trying to portray without bells and whistles. The tenets of Zen minimalism are very similar. It is the foundation of Zen to understand the true essence, or […]
A writer’s personal, emotional state is often reflected in his or her writing, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of Raymond Carver. Making Literature Matter offers us two of Carver’s stories; the first, entitled “The Bath”, is an original work, while the second, “A Small, Good Thing”, is a revision of […]