Cathedral:Raymond Carver
Title: Cathedral:Raymond Carver
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1062 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cathedral:Raymond Carver
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1062 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Cathedral"
Raymond Carver was born to an alcoholic father who worked in a sawmill on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon. He married and had two children between the ages of 18 and 21. He and his bride of 16, Mary, were married for twenty years. He believed hard work would see his family through all life's troubles. However, poverty and his own alcoholism finally caused them to go their separate ways. After seizures and doctors convinced him to stop
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affirms something. It's a positive story and I like it a lot for that reason. People say it's a metaphor for some other thing, for art, for making . . . But no, I thought about the physical contact of the blind man's hand on his hand. It's all imaginary. Nothing like that ever happened to me. Well, there was an extraordinary discovery." Certainly, the changes Raymond Carver made in his own life were reflected in this story.