"Surf's House" is the second part of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" novel collection, with a full text of about 3500 words, and tells the story of me accompanying my ex-husband Weiss to Cerf's house to quit drinking in the first person. Surf reclaimed the house and upset the balance of our lives.
The structure of the story is very clear, and the beginning: I decided to go to Cerf's house to help Weiss quit drinking; development: Weiss and I lived a stable life in Cerf's house; turning: Cerf wants to take back his house; ending: Weiss and I fell into anxiety, and the otherwise stable life collapsed.
The "sea" runs through the whole story like a thread. In the first sea in the text, when Weiss called me to accompany him, he described the sea view outside the window, the breath of the sea, and the vision of a better life, which attracted me to decide to drop everything to find Weiss and accompany him to quit drinking. In the second sea, when Surf came to reclaim his house, my eyes passed through Surf, his car, the driveway, the highway, and I saw the dunes and the sea behind me. The sea has gradually drifted away, there are barriers, it is a turning point, and the things in front of you are blocking the future beauty. The third sea of the article, when we accept having to leave Surf's house, Weiss closes the curtains, and the sea disappears. The whole story is over. The different scenes of the sea reflect my different moods and convey different feelings in the scene.
When Weiss said "If I were someone else, I would never stand here." If I were someone else, I wouldn't be me. But I'm just me, you know? ”。 At this point, the story suddenly inserts a short scene when he was 19 years old and just married, and they go to find Weiss's father together. I quickly returned to reality, and the whole scene became sad, and this moment and moment were like a dream. I also imagined a better future with him, but at this time we had nothing. I realized and accepted that time had passed, what had happened had happened, that history had become the present, and that there was no way to reverse the current.
Surf's house is just a carrier of turns, and without Surf's house, there will be other things that will change. Because it is not the house that changes, it is the people who change.