Cathedral
“Cathedral” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” I will compare and contrast two of Raymond Carver’s stories “Cathedral” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. “Cathedral” is about a married couple who receive in their house a blind man, called Robert, who is an old friend of the wife. ... A comparison between the two stories is that in “Cathedral” the husband was not very happy in receiving another man that was important to his wife, although he was just a good friend, and in “What we Talk About When We Talk About Love”, Mel also expresses some kind of jealousy and anger when his wife Terri talks about Ed, the man she used to live with. ... A significant sentence in “Cathedral” is when the narrator and husband in the story says, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit.