A Meaningless Stay (Cathedral)

Chef's House

“I want you to try and be the Wes I used to know . The old Wes. The Wes I married.” (p.27) this quote caught my attention quickly because right away we learn that Wes has problems, and Wes is married. Wes is a man so therefore our narrator throughout the story is a woman. Also as we have been learning in class to write with short sentences instead of long descriptive sentences with comas and very little periods in between., this quote is a great example of that short almost cut offs of sentences.


This short story is short and descriptive about the alcoholics and Wes and his wife staying at Chef’s house. But what is the point of the story? Was I supposed to learn something, what point was being made? I had to read this short story two times to come to the decision that either I really did not understand it, or that it was just the story of a vacation at Chef’s House with a meaningless point.