Read the short story Cathedral by Raymond Carver

The Prompt: Diversity can have many meanings and associations, especially in current American usage. “Cathedral” is about another kind of diversity than the way most people would use it now, one perhaps we might overlook. Each of the three characters in the story perceives the world and those around him or her in vastly different ways.

What are the lessons the story offers about others who are different from us, the way we react to those others, about our perceptions, fears, misconceptions, etc. What is process of assimilation? How do we come to understand or reconcile with those we perceive as different? How does it

2 references should be from scholarly works, and the other one being the story itself in the file I will send