Raymond Carver with Cathedral and John Updike with AP

Raymond Carver with â€Å"Cathedral† and John Updike with â€Å"AP† â€Å"Cathedral† and AP both short stories written during the same century. But even though they both introduce stereotypical characters that somehow change their view of the world, they have many more different aspects. The stories differ in atmosphere and the quantity of people involve in each story. The story â€Å"Cathedral† only took place in a family house with only the husband, wife who can be qualified as a static character tried to kill herself in the past, and finally the blind man. Unlike in the short story â€Å"AP† the event took place in a grocery store with Sammy, the three girls and finally the manager who is also a static character, nothing special with him, just the typical†¦show more content†¦But I heard nothing of the sort† (Raymond Carver 77), unlike Sammy’s only thoughts were based on the girls appearance. In contrary of the two stories, the blind man (Robert) engages pretty deeply with the husband, what the narrator qualified as â€Å"weird† (Raymond Carver 77) in â€Å"Cathedral† ,what Sammy missed to do with the girls that apparently he was quit interested in seeing that he based his whole focus on them and only them. The blind man probably noticed the way the husband sees things, that’s why he engaged in all these activity with him. They drank and smoked together until the wife comes in and kind of interrupt them for a while but eventually she fell asleep, as in â€Å"AP† when the girls finally came to check out with Sammy, the manager Mr. Lengel comes and disturbed Sammy’s job, he is the manager at some point he had to do his job and keep the store running normally â€Å"Lengel comes in from haggling with a truck of cabbages on the lot and is about to scuttle into that door marked MANAGER†¦ He comes over and says, â€Å"Girls, this isn’t the beach† (John Updike 14). At each of these specific moment the life of each of the protagonists, is starting to change. With the husband in â€Å"Cathedral†, he started to draw a Cathedral with the blind man, with his eyes close, â€Å"Close your eyes now,†Show MoreRelatedAP and Cathedral Comparison Essay 1617 Words   |  7 PagesMallory Russell 06/12/15 Comparison Essay ENG 102 Online â€Å"Cathedral† by Raymond Carver versus â€Å"A + P† by John Updike In the short stories â€Å"Cathedral† by Raymond Carver and â€Å"A + P† by John Updike the protagonists experience an epiphany that change their restricted way of thinking. The main character, â€Å"Sammy† in John Updike’s, â€Å"A + P† is a teenage boy working in the town grocery store. Sammy experiences an epiphany when he decides to quit his job at the grocery store. He quit because he believedRead MoreThe parallel between â€Å"Cathedral† and â€Å"AP†1892 Words   |  8 Pages The parallel between â€Å"Cathedral† and â€Å"AP† Raymond Carver with â€Å"Cathedral† and â€Å"AP† by John Updike are both short stories, even if in facts they are written during the same century, readers can interpret the changes that occurred to be really different. They both introduce characters that are being victim of stereotype by the protagonists, but somehow these characters made a great change into the protagonists’ view of the world and life itself. The stories differ in atmosphere and the quantityRead MoreJourney Through English Class2328 Words   |  10 Pagesshe had died of heart disease-of joy that kills†. My reason for that was because it turned the whole story upside-down and made me realize and possibly even her realize that she really did love him. Our second essay was on â€Å"AP†, which was written by John Updike in 1961. The one mistake that I managed to make again in this essay was to simply introduce the work, a mistake I will not make again. I had an instant connection with the main character Sammy in this story because I too worked at a