Blog 9

Carver’s article tells a story about the wife’s “childhood sweetheart” spend a night is the couple’s house. The story ends very suddenly when Robert taught the husband to draw a Cathedral. The husband was apparently dislike Robert and was jealous of him because Robert’s close relationship with the wife. I can understand the husband because I would be mad under that situation. But I think at the end of the article, the husband’s emotion has been remitted, that was probably because Robert was a good person. This is how I understand the storyline. The author merely described what happened in the past, what was going on in the house, and what the conversations was. The way the story was narrated enabled me to think about, exactly feel, what changes were taking place to the husband. It was just a story.

 

As long as the author didn’t describe much emotional things about the wife and the visitor, it was hard for me to understand what is going on with their thinking. How I can develop an opinion was to through the husband’s point of view, which was the only focus of the story, I think. So I really what to know what exactly happen to the husband when they were drawing, how the drawing change the person’s opinion.