Cathedral & Shiloh
Cathedral & Shiloh
Analysing friction stories can lead to many conclusion by how the reader is
taking thoughts from it. In this class, we have read many stories that have focused on
many thoughts. We had stories that were focused on women's thinking, their speech and
how they deal with their beloved ones. We also had stories giving details on wars, love,
religion, and one of the most common topic - gender. The two stories being discussed in
here are Shiloh by Mason and Cathedral by Carver. These two stories have few things in common that can be described in a way that
can tell us how the two men suffered throughout their lives on different aspects of their
lives; of their personality. Cathedral and Shiloh are narrative stories told by two husbands
who have totally different ways of living life and whose lives are figureatively at a
different peek of their lives. However, coming out of two different stories these two men's
situation is alot similar. They both have a turning point in their lives, where these two
men start thinking differently and they have major change in their personality. Another
aspect of their life is marriage and their insecurity towards their wives. Throughtout this
paper it will be more clear of how they are similar and different.
According to the husband in Cathedral, we can make assumtions that he was very
insecure with the "blind man". On the basis, of how detailed he went on talking about the
blind man and his wife's relationship throughtout years it tells us that he is little confused
about his wife and Robert's relationship. For example, the husband is describing the time
when she was working for the blind man:
She read stuff to him, case studies, reports, that sort of things. She helped
him organize his little office in the country social service department.
They'd become good friends, ....On her last day in the office, the blind man
Analysing friction stories can lead to many conclusion by how the reader is
taking thoughts from it. In this class, we have read many stories that have focused on
many thoughts. We had stories that were focused on women's thinking, their speech and
how they deal with their beloved ones. We also had stories giving details on wars, love,
religion, and one of the most common topic - gender. The two stories being discussed in
here are Shiloh by Mason and Cathedral by Carver. These two stories have few things in common that can be described in a way that
can tell us how the two men suffered throughout their lives on different aspects of their
lives; of their personality. Cathedral and Shiloh are narrative stories told by two husbands
who have totally different ways of living life and whose lives are figureatively at a
different peek of their lives. However, coming out of two different stories these two men's
situation is alot similar. They both have a turning point in their lives, where these two
men start thinking differently and they have major change in their personality. Another
aspect of their life is marriage and their insecurity towards their wives. Throughtout this
paper it will be more clear of how they are similar and different.
According to the husband in Cathedral, we can make assumtions that he was very
insecure with the "blind man". On the basis, of how detailed he went on talking about the
blind man and his wife's relationship throughtout years it tells us that he is little confused
about his wife and Robert's relationship. For example, the husband is describing the time
when she was working for the blind man:
She read stuff to him, case studies, reports, that sort of things. She helped
him organize his little office in the country social service department.
They'd become good friends, ....On her last day in the office, the blind man