"Cathedral"
Raymond Carver was born to an alcoholic father who worked in a sawmill on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon. He married and had two children between the ages of 18 and 21. He and his bride of 16, Mary, were married for twenty years. He believed hard work would see his family through all life's troubles. However, poverty and his own alcoholism finally caused them to go their separate ways. After seizures and doctors convinced him to stop drinking, he married Tess, who was with him for eleven years and nurtured him until he died of lung and brain cancer.
y what he called his two lives. In his first life, low paying jobs, acute addiction to alcohol and the unrelieved responsibility to his children were reflected in his writing. …
