RAYMOND CARVER'S "WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE" Stories, be they written or on screen, usually employ setting as a backdrop and having no direct relation to the actual storyline progression. This, however, is not the case in Raymond Carver's tale "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." ... (Carver 176). ... The element of sunlight and its effect on the Raymond Carver story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" follows a very strict time-line. ... (Carver 176)...

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In the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the narrator possesses qualities that resemble both moralities but his wife and the blind man resemble those who have slave moralities and are true at heart. ... The narrator says that he had, "watched with admiration" the skill that he possessed with his "knife and fork on the meat" as if being blind hindered his ability to eat like a normal human being (Carver, 211). ... The blind man asks for the narrator to open his eyes and tell him what he thinks and all the narrator could say was, "It's really som...

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Comparison Paper Cathedral The short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, and the screen adaptation of that short story by Bruce R. ... Carver and Schwartz both give readers/viewers the ingredients of the entire story. ... In the introduction of the story Carver goes on to explain how, "[Robert and her] talked. ... In the short story, Carver explains the wife's past life and her old marriage. ... In the short story, Carver goes on a detailed explanation of Robert and Beulah's life, before she died. ...

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