The Blind

In the story Cathedral, the narrator's mood changes from being jealous in a way to feeling connected with the blind man. In the beginning when he talks about the blind man he speaks in short sentences and avoids certain topics. Throughout the story he likes talking about his relationship with his wife and all of their good times. He likes to make jokes about the blind man saying things like "maybe I can take him bowling" and things of the sort. Gradually through the movie the narrator becomes closer to the blind man and started having a more open mind. At the end, when drawing the cathedral, the narrator keeps his eyes closed to really see what it feels like to be blind. The wife comes in and sees this and she begins to wonder what's going…

I chose to discuss “Cathedral” by Raymond carver for my first essay and how the blind man, Robert, inspires the narrator, the husband of Robert’s friend, to really see the world despite being blind. "Cathedral" is narrated by a man whose wife has an old friend who is coming to visit from Seattle. The friend is blind and his wife has just passed away. The narrator identifies Robert's blindness as his defining characteristic. Though Robert is blind, he can perceive the world in ways the narrator…

Men tend to be possessive and aggressive, especially in the case of their spouses. This reigns especially true for the narrator in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral.” When the narrator's wife has a male friend stay over, her husband’s true colors begin to show, as he makes predetermined judgements based solely upon jealousy. Robert, a blind man, causes the narrator to shift from judgemental and ignorant to accepting and aware through getting him to see through his eyes. From the moment the…

Bonds between people usually form from mutual community in which people interact in. Communities allow friendships and even family to grow and strengthen over time, such communities can be seen in life and even in stories such as Cathedral by. Raymond Carver. By having a group of people to interact with and grow alongside to allows a community to form and become a life that is centered around those people and activities that will ensue in that community. In the story Cathedral The Blind Man…

Morally blind There are about three thousand cathedrals, and about 39 million blind people, around the world. That is about 39 million people that don’t get to see the beautiful walls and insides of cathedrals. In In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral,” an unnamed narrator suddenly faces his own preconceptions, jealousy and prejudices about blind people that in return makes him emotionally and morally blind himself. Without actually being blind, the narrator of the story judges and puts…

telling of man who can see, a man who is blind, and the night they spend watching television after drinking and the narrator’s wife has fallen asleep. However, as the story goes on and is examined further, we find that it is full of themes, some more obvious than others, but all equally important when it comes to fully understanding the story. The most obvious situation in this story, is the issue dealing with having sight versus being blind, and who is truly what in this story. On the…

Short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is about how the blind man, Robert, inspires the narrator, the husband of Robert’s friend, to really see the world despite being blind. "Cathedral" is narrated by a man whose wife has an old friend who is coming to visit from Seattle. The friend is blind and his wife has just passed away. The narrator identifies Robert's blindness as his defining characteristic. Though Robert is blind, he can perceive the world in ways the narrator cannot understand and…

see is often taken for granted as it is in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. The title suggests that the story deals with a cathedral, but it is really about two blind men; one physically, the other mentally. One of the men is Robert, the blind friend of the narrator's wife, and the other is the narrator himself. The narrator is the man who is mentally blind, and unknowingly describes his own prejudice. Carver writes the husband as a man with a very narrow mind. Two instances in particular…

initial contact with the blind man begins passively: her job to work for the man is simply a job, nothing more. The narrator grows a rapid jealousy and resentment, following the event where his wife allowed the blind man to touch her face, although his initial reaction to reading the poem about the event is blank and unmoving, and he states that he did not think much of the poem, while describing the event, he narrated in detail exactly which parts of her face that the blind man touched, even…

The Blind Assassin is a layered, multi genre story created by Margaret Atwood set in Port Ticonderoga, Canada throughout the 20th century. The two main characters are Iris and Laura Chase, the daughter of a rich war veteran who owns a button factory. The story itself is broken up into four subplots, all from the point of view of Iris, the eldest sister. The outermost story is of 80 year old Iris, her daily life, as she tells the second story of her family’s past, which hit on many of Atwood’s…