I found Raymond Carver’s Cathedral to be very interesting because I’ve never read anything like it before. I think these types of stories whether it be fiction or nonfiction are important to be told. It’s such a beautiful story about this grumpy, jealous, cold-hearted, depressed man whose outlook on life is changed by a blind man. I think the way the writer chose his words used for the narrator are also important in giving readers a better understanding of the character. Without these short, blunt sentences all the readers would have is just his description to go off of. When you are reading the story it feels like you are literally in his mind, thinking his thoughts—it’s incredible. The intimate experiences in the story really stood out to me. The experiences of when the narrator’s wife interacts with the blind man by letting him touch her face and when the blind man helps the narrator draw a cathedral with his eyes closed are so carefully told. I enjoyed the choice of storytelling for those interactions, they painted a picture in my head and left me feeling something inside. Although this story is short, it holds so much power!