Angel Jimenez Discussion 13

For this comparison, I chose Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” style to compare Raymond Caver’s “Cathedral” style. In Caver’s story, he writes straightforwardly about everyday interactions. An example of this is when the characters of the story are having a conversation about a blind friend who is going to spend time in their house. The wife says to make him stay comfortable in the house and the husband says, “I don’t have any blind friends,” I said. “You don’t have any friends,” she said. In contrast, Gabriel Marquez writes in a more detailed and colorful to make vivid images of the story in our minds. An example of this is when he describes how small the village is in the story of “The Most Handsome Drowned Man.” “There was so little land that mothers always went about with the fear that the wind would carry off their children, and the few dead that the years had caused among them had to be thrown off the cliffs”.