Soon after she opens her eyes, the narrator closes his, but continues drawing, with Robert's hand tight around his. Robert has his hand over her husband's hand, and the two of them sitting on the floor drawing on a paper grocery bag. When the woman wakes up, she can't quite process what she sees. When Robert and the narrator draw the cathedral together in front of the narrator's sleeping wife, something amazing is happening, something that isn't necessarily visible to the eye. After lots of drinks, a huge meal, and some marijuana, an ordinary living room is transformed into what could be considered a scared place, kind of like a cathedral, but one where the people in it are worshiping only each other. In a story called "Cathedral" one might expect setting to be a little more complicated than that. The basic setting of the story is a middle-class home somewhere in New York, over a single evening. One night in a New York home, late 1970s or early 1980sįirst published in 1981, "Cathedral" is set in the days when the switch from black and white to color television was in its early stages, and when cassette tapes were a cutting edge technology.
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