Cathedral Quotes and Reviews | GridSaver (2023)

“And his blindness bothered me. My idea of ​​blindness came from movies. In movies, blind people moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were guided by guide dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked up to." .forward."

This admission of the narrator shows his narrowness and unwillingness to try something new. The revelation at the end of the story opens the narrator to new experiences, to a new way of seeing the world. But before that, the narrator is detached from himself - he sees the world through television and movies - and has no interest in seeing how things work in the real world. Much of his personality flaw is evident in this quote.

"So I said, 'I'm happy for the company.'

And I think that's it. Every night I would smoke pot and stay up as late as possible before falling asleep. My wife and I rarely went to bed at the same time. When I went to sleep, I had these dreams. Sometimes one of them would wake me up, my heart would go crazy."

Although the narrator is generally superficial and arrogant, in this passage he reveals his intuition that he is not as happy or fulfilled as he might think. He is probably not conscious enough to admit his desire, but Robert inspires him to realize that he needs companionship. He also employs "dreams", whose metaphorical value is quite clear. He is haunted by dreams of what he doesn't have, and it is this unspoken desire that takes shape through his experience of designing the cathedral with Robert.

"So we did it. His fingers ran over my fingers as my hand ran over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life until now."

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Then he said, 'I think that's it. I think you get the point,' he said. 'Take a look. What do you think?'

But he had his eyes closed. Thought I'd keep them that way a little longer. I thought it was something I should do.

'Good?' he said. 'You are watching?'

My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew. But I didn't feel like I was into anything.

'It's really amazing,' I said."

This passage describes the revelation that hits the narrator at the end of the story. It describes her transition to freedom from the self-imposed limits of her own life. As he ponders the meaning of "seeing" (in the passage he keeps his eyes closed but still admits to "seeing" something), he realizes that he has been trapped within the walls of his life and home while ignoring greater freedom. not being "in anything" was available to him. By taking your eyes off the life around you, you allow yourself to "see" the larger world.

"ANDerasan ugly baby, but as far as I can tell, I don't think Bud and Olla minded. Or, if so, maybe they just thought it's okay if it's ugly. It's our baby. And that's just one step. Very soon there will be another stage. There's this phase, and then there's the next phase. In the long run, everything will be fine when all the steps are completed. You might have thought something like that."

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Fran ends up blaming Bud and Olla for the misfortune she and Jack end up living with, but Jack knows better. Indeed, in Bud and Olla's home, as described in this passage, they realize that life can be made up of adventures, emotions and unique experiences. Much of Bud and Olla's home is odd, represented by both the peacock and the ugly baby. And yet, with her positivity, Jack learns that life is a series of "stages" to be enjoyed, each in its own way. What makes Jack and Fran unhappy is that they have lived comfortable, nondescript lives that have masked their unhappiness. As they try to venture out, to live the life described in this passage, they realize their true loneliness and separateness from each other.

"So I said something. I said, suppose, just imagine, nothing ever happens. Suppose it was the first time. Let's suppose. I mean what then? I said.

Wes fixed me. He said well I guess we would have to be someone else if that was the case. Someone we are not. I don't make that kind of assumption. We are born who we are. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

This passage touches on the tragedy of the story, that is, that the two spouses try to relive the past and end up facing the impossibility of doing so. Both are serious about being better people together, but when Boss asks them to leave, they are forced to face the truth of who they are right away. It's one of Carver's most recurring themes that we're all trapped by who we are, and as such it's difficult, and often impossible, for us to connect with others.

"The baker wasn't happy. There was no banter between them, just the slightest exchange of words, the necessary information. She was uncomfortable and she didn't like it... She studied his gruff features and wondered if there was more to his life than than to be a baker, she was a mother and she was thirty-three and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone of pastry age, was a man old enough for her father to have children past that special time of cakes and cakes. birthday parties.It must have been between them, she thought.

The tragedy of this story unfolds when Ann and Howard realize that the comfort they cherish in their lives is held together by the frailest of threads. Also, they realize that they are really alone in the world, that it's hard to connect with people. Ann is not a bad person, but in this passage we see that she is a little quick to expect others to react to her the way she does to them. She doesn't think about the baker's loneliness, a sign that she still hasn't realized the distance between people, how little we know each other. She will learn this throughout the story, so the last scene shows a communion where she and the baker find comfort in recognizing the sadness of living apart from others.

They nodded as the baker began to talk about the loneliness and feelings of insecurity and limitation that gripped him in middle age. He told them what it was like not having children all these years. Repeat days with infinitely full and infinitely empty ovens".

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After giving the warm buns to Ann and Howard, the baker heads over to them. Unlike the beginning, when Ann is unable to empathize and considers that the baker can know true loneliness, now because of his tragedy they understand how easily life can make him embittered, unhappy and sad. There is an ironic communion over the cinnamon rolls, in which the three adults come together to acknowledge how lonely they are. It's one of the main themes of the story: we can be together when we empathize with the tragedy of our loneliness.

"So we started talking about moving to Arizona, somewhere like this.

I got us another one. I looked out the window. Arizona wasn't a bad idea."

In this story, the city of Portland represents a theme that permeates several stories: the desire to escape without knowing how. This passage shows that Portland is not the only place people wonder about without knowing anything about it. Here, the narrator and his wife drunkenly discuss Arizona as a casual getaway. The irony, of course, is that they discuss change while mired in their codependent alcoholism and stagnant behavior. Deep down they want to change something, but like the characters in A Casa do Patrão, they feel they cannot break free.

"I'm trying to remember if I've read any of Jack London's books. I can't remember. But there was a story I read about him in high school. "To Start a Fire" was the name of it. This guy from the Yukon is freezing Imagine: he's going to freeze to death if he can't make a fire. With a fire he can dry his socks and clothes and keep warm.

He lights his fire, but then something happens to him. A pile of snow falls on them. sai It's getting colder now. The night is coming."

The narrator reflects on Jack London's story on the last page of the story to gain strength to call his wife and girlfriend. Throughout the story, he tries not to think too much about his own problems, instead focusing on J.P. He seems imbued with a deep pessimism about his chances of recovery, having just spoken to Frank Martin for the second time. The potential for failure prevents him from calling his girlfriend, but his thoughts on "To Start a Fire" help illustrate his feelings. He realizes that while life can throw a "stick of snow" into a good situation (the bad news about his girlfriend's cancer led to his recent binge eating), we have no choice but to persevere, unless we want to disappear. of the Cold. Through the story, he realizes that if he wants to succeed, he must try, no matter what difficulties may come his way. All you can do is take it one step at a time (a philosophy that's very much in line with the AA mantra) and hope you finally get out of the cold.

Carlyle kept talking. At first, his head still hurt and he felt uncomfortable sitting on the couch in his pajamas with this lady next to him, patiently waiting for her to move on to the next task. But then his headache was gone. And pretty soon he stopped being uncomfortable and forgot how he was supposed to feel."

When Carlyle finally starts talking to Mrs. Webster, he feels his illness is getting better. Throughout history, you've always had in mind that your main problem is taking care of children. However, this problem only distracts him from his more serious problem: he cannot reconcile the past with his present unhappiness. He remembers how happy he was with Eileen and doesn't understand how this could have happened. When his girlfriend criticized him earlier in the story for not expressing his feelings, she realized how closed off he was to others. This deep illness and sadness manifests itself in his "fever" and only when he faces the fact that the past is over and he must now look to the future can he get better and turn to "his children" as he did. at the end of the story.