我做不到Cathedral Raymond Carver(《大教堂》雷蒙德.卡佛)

2021年1月22日发(作者：玛伦)
Cathedral

Raymond Carver


大教堂




雷蒙德．卡佛

文章中英文分析

《大教堂》是
他最著名的短篇之一。主人公的
妻子 多年来与一位盲人朋友保
持联系。
一次，盲人
朋友终于要来拜访这对夫妇，妻子兴致勃 勃，主人公却非但
不激动，反而
竭力克制自己
毫无理由的敌意和鄙夷。和
其他 一些故事一样，主人公
对生活这种无所
谓和厌弃相混
合的态度，
始终是个没有提示的谜题。
除了从卡佛自己的生活经历入手
，
恐怕
很难找到别的< br>解释。
《大教堂》
结尾，主人公
在闭着眼睛和
盲人一起画
画的 过程
中，绷紧的神经终于放
松下来。不是四两拨千斤，而是花大量篇幅在
天平一端放了 过
多郁闷之后，
在另一端放一茶匙淡淡的欢欣意
思意思。然而，这便是雷蒙德
·
卡佛。



Cathedral Summary

his wife's is coming to visit them. The narrator is clearly unhappy about the
upcoming visit.
He
then flashes back to the story of how his wife met the blind man when she worked for him as a
reader. At the time, she was engaged to marry an officer in the Air Force. When she tells the blind
man goodbye, he asks if he can touch her face. The touch of his fingers on her face is a pivotal
moment in her life, something the narrator does not understand.
Although his wife has maintained contact with the blind man for ten years, this will be the first
time she has seen him since her marriage, subsequent divorce, and remarriage. Robert, the blind
man, has just lost his wife and will be traveling to Connecticut to visit with her family. Along the
way he will spend the night at the home of the narrator and his wife. His wife tells the narrator that
Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable.



Themes
Alienation and Loneliness
Like
the
characters
in
many
of
Carver's
works,
the
main
characters
experience,
or
have
experienced, alienation and
loneliness. The narrator is unhappy in his work, jealous of his wife,
and unconnected to other human beings. In addition to not being connected to others himself, he
seems to resent his wife's connections to other people as well. When he speaks of the impending
visit by the blind man he states, ''I wasn' t enthusiastic about his visit ... A
blind man in my house
was not something I looked forward to.’’ Further, once Robert arrives...

The narrator is not an articulate man; consequently, the narration is filled with gaps that the reader
must fill in.

“Cathedral” Plot Summary