Cathedral

I really enjoyed reading this short story.  At first I was appalled at how incredibly rude and selfish the main character of the story was, however he made up for it at the end.  Carver does a really good job of building up the main character’s  ugly personality throughout the story in order to display to the audience just how much progress the blind man made on changing the main character’s view on life.  The one thing about the story that I found the most interesting was how simple it was.  When I was explaining the story to other people, I was amazed at how boring and simple it sounded when I explained it.  To me, this just shows how incredible Carver’s writing is.  He has an amazing ability to write a story that has little action or climax and yet engage readers; even leaving them wanting more.