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Figurative Blindness and Empathy in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"

This analysis of Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" focuses on character and theme to explore metaphorical blindness. The student describes the narrator's arc as a progression toward empathy.
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Bridget's feedback:

"This essay's organization remains focused on the task of analysis; the reader is easily able to keep up with the overall presentation. The writing is sound, and you have a good sense of flow and sentence variety. Watch out for moments when your writing is simply repeating information given in the direct quotations--use your body paragraph sentences to analyze the quotation, not just summarize. You mention jealousy in the final body paragraph--this is a key part of the narrator's posture, but you don't say this explicitly until the last page. Omitting the narrator's jealousy makes your analysis a little confusing--you will either need to show that the narrator is solely an ableist bigot (and he may well be, but you cannot prove this simply by leaving out story detail), or contextualize his reaction to Robert using the information Carver has given the reader. Finally, make sure to use the author's last name--not his first name--in the citations."

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