The supporters from the different narratives all seem to hold their alterations or their epiphanies occur rather rapidly. These alterations are non brought approximately by drawn-out self-reflection or deep pondering. alternatively. they occur. apparently. in a flash. as a series of events seem to all of a sudden open their eyes. For illustration. Robert. from “Cathedral” . goes through a long narrative of explicating the hows and the wherefore of the chief event in the narrative ( the visit of his wife’s blind friend ) before. eventually. showing his realisation in merely nine words at the very terminal of the narrative.

To be more specific with respect to Robert’s instance. we see how. in much of the narrative. he talks non so much about himself as a individual – a hubby. a friend. etc – but as simply person who is annoyed by an unwanted visitant. Robert negotiations much of his married woman ( with non a batch of fondness. take note ) and her friend. but he does non speak about himself. merely repeating once more and once more his irritation and uncomfortableness. This method of composing distances the readers from Robert and makes him an unsympathetic character who readers may non appreciate.

This technique really strengthens his epiphany. and. in a manner. makes it an epiphany of the readers as good. When Robert said “I didn’t feel like I was indoors anything” ( Carver ) . the reader. along with Robert. besides realize that though Robert is the 1 stating the narrative. he seems non to be in the narrative as an of import character himself. Robert was in his house. yes. but he was non “in” a relationship with his married woman as seen by their strangely cold exchanges ( for illustration the duologue about Beulah ) ; he was non “in” any friendly relationships [ “You don’t have any friends. ” she said. “Period.

” ( ( Carver ) ] ; and he had no connexion with the blind adult male either. In “Good Country People” . the alteration in Hulga is disconnected every bit good. The cold. rude. disconnected and “intellectual” large blonde moves from assurance and self-control into fright. choler. and panic every bit shortly as she loses that which “she was as sensitive about ( … ) as a Inachis io about his tail” ( O’Connor. Good Country People ) . Earlier in the narrative. Hulga is portrayed as a adult female who is cold and out-of-touch with the universe she lives in because she thinks that her instruction has separated and made her better than those in her locality.

She paints herself as person who can non be touched by any emotions because. in Hulga’s ain words: “I don’t have semblances. I’m one of those people who see through to nothing” ( O’Connor. Good Country People ) . And yet when she loses her unreal leg. all of a sudden. Hulga is no longer confident or ferocious or composed ; she is dependent and weak and afraid ( “Her voice when she spoke had an about pleading sound” ( O’Connor. Good Country People ) ) .

We see with Hulga how all her assurance and abruptness was stored in that unreal leg and. hence. with its sudden loss came her sudden alteration. Last. in “A Good Man Is Difficult to Find” . the grandma is the one whom we see changed. Indeed her alteration from being a instead selfish old lady ( as in mousing the Pitty Sing into the auto and make up one’s minding non to have up to her realisation of her error ) . is given a 360-degree bend in the face of her ain mortality. Even her interaction with The Misfit shows her alteration.

In their first brush she tries to blandish him. in order to salvage her life ; she says to him “”I know you’re a good adult male. You don’t look a spot like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people! ” ( O’Connor. A Good Man is Difficult to Find ) . However. at the reference of talk and supplication. the grandma all of a sudden becomes cognizant of something beyond her image of him every bit merely a slayer and she tells him “”Why you’re one of my babes. You’re one of my ain kids! ” ( O’Connor. A Good Man is Difficult to Find ) .

This portion allows us to see how the grandma has gone beyond her ain ego and has acknowledged the humanity of The Misfit. even though he is the eventual decease of her.

Plants Cited

Carver. Raymond. Cathedral. 30 July 2009 & lt ; hypertext transfer protocol: //www. ndsu. nodak. edu/instruct/cinichol/GovSchool/Cathedral2. htm & gt ; . O’Connor. Flannery. A Good Man is Difficult to Find. 30 July 2009 & lt ; hypertext transfer protocol: //www. turksheadreview. com/library/texts/oconnor-goodmanhard. hypertext markup language & gt ; . O’Connor. Flannery. Good State People. 30 July 2009