Character Development and the Development of our Society

Fiction has a purpose no matter if it is a novel, or a short story. The writer has written the story to convey a message to the readers. This message can be seen through the underlining theme of the piece. The writer may use many different elements to project the theme to the reader. Raymond Carver uses character development to portray the theme in his short story “Cathedrals”. He shows the reader that the husband’s development is actually the development of our society.

“Cathedrals” is a short story about a man who is meeting his wife’s blind friend, Robert. At the beginning of the story the man does not want anything to do with a blind man. He says, “a blind man in his house was not something he looked forward to” (Carver 448). After the arrival of Robert, the man’s wife leaves the room to change and her husband is very uncom

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Approximate Word count = 602
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)