Cathedral Reading Response

Answer the following questions in your journal using complete sentences:

1. Why do you think the wife is never named?
2. Why the repeated references to Robert lifting his beard?
3. What is important about the two flashbacks (the ones about the
narrator's wife's past and Robert's past)?
4. Is the narrator a sympathetic protagonist?
5. Where do you see the narrator being mean? Give specific examples.
6. How does the narrator develop or change or "grow" over the course of
the evening?

Cathedral Writing Response

Write a scene between two characters who have nothing in common but
must interact. Perhaps they are stuck in an elevator together, or must
organize a mutual friends funeral despite not knowing one another. Consider
the following: who are these people? What do they think about one another?
Do they have any preconceived notions, like Carvers character had about
blind people? 1-2 pages.

Cathedral Reading Response

Answer the following questions in your journal using complete sentences:
1. Why do you think the wife is never named?
2. Why the repeated references to Robert lifting his beard?
3. What is important about the two flashbacks (the ones about the
narrator's wife's past and Robert's past)?
4. Is the narrator a sympathetic protagonist?
5. Where do you see the narrator being mean? Give specific examples.
6. How does the narrator develop or change or "grow" over the course of
the evening?

Cathedral Writing Response

Write a scene between two characters who have nothing in common but
must interact. Perhaps they are stuck in an elevator together, or must
organize a mutual friends funeral despite not knowing one another. Consider
the following: who are these people? What do they think about one another?

Do they have any preconceived notions, like Carvers character had about
blind people? 1-2 pages.