Carver "Cathedral"
I think what I found the most compelling about this piece was the voice and the way the author described the situation. I really felt like I got a good sense of what it was like to be in the husband-narrator's shoes. It is an all too familiar scene, a chatty wife/ladyfriend bringing over someone who they wan to sit and gossip with and a male counterpart who has little to no interest in the situation but has to feign something in order to keep her happy. This is a scene which I feel is represented much easier via video/visual means, but I thought the author did a nice job detailing in in writing.
What I liked least about the work was probably the end. There was such a buildup throughout the piece, with the author going into plenty of detail on so many trivial aspects of the story, and then there was this sudden change of heart by the husband at the very end and then it was all over. In like 3 lines. I did think this created a little dissonance which actually kind of made the work more intriguing, but regardless it still just left me with a slight uneasy feeling.
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