Epiphanic Awakenings in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"

Autor/inn/en	Sadeq, Ala Eddin; Al-Badawi, Mohammed
Titel	Epiphanic Awakenings in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 7 (2016) 3, S.157-160 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Literary Genres; United States Literature; Literary Devices; Realism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literarische Form; Literaturarbeit; Realismus
Abstract	This paper explores how two short stories from very different backgrounds conclude in a significant epiphany for the characters. Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" are studied to see how the husband in Carver's work is blinder than his visually-impaired overnight guest, and the college-educated Dee in Walker's story is more ignorant than her uneducated Mama and sister with learning difficulties. In the husband's case in "Cathedral," once he is forced to interact with someone unfamiliar he has an eye-opening experience and is led to the realization of how blind he has been. Walker's Mama also has her own epiphany at the climax of the short story and her demeanor changes, becoming more assertive than before. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01