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John Updike’s “A&P” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” both use limited first-person narrators whose assumptions are challenged by unexpected encounters. This comparison explains Sammy’s impulsive resignation, class and consumer culture in “A&P,” prejudice and jealousy in “Cathedral,” the symbolic drawing scene, masculinity, communication, irony, perspective and the different forms of change at the end of each story.

The terms Global North and Global South are widely used to describe unequal patterns of wealth, political influence, technology, finance, trade, and development. They are useful shorthand, but they are not literal geographic categories and they should not be treated as two fixed communities with identical interests. Countries usually associated with the Global North include […]

College life in the 1960s and college life in the 2020s share some basic features—classes, exams, friendships, financial pressure, identity development, and uncertainty about the future—but the environment surrounding students has changed dramatically. Higher education now serves a much larger and more diverse population, technology is woven into almost every academic task, many students work […]