Robert, the blind man said, “But maybe you could describe one to me? I wish you’d do it. I’d like that. If you want to know, I really don’t have a good idea”(11). This is one part in the “Cathedral” where the narrator gets caught for something he did not know. For example, through out the story the narrator would act as he knew everything there is to know in the world. Robert and the narrator finally get to open up throughout the story after a few drinks and smokes. Finally, Robert and the narrator were brought together because the narrator did not know how to describe a cathedral and did not know what to do. This is an important moment in the story that opens up an area between Robert and the narrator that lets them share ideas and not just one viewpoint. In the “Cathedral” Carver helps readers learn to not just look at your own point of view, but look at multiple perspectives and go beneath the surface of thinking.
The narrator starts off the story in the beginning by being very stereotypical without even thinking about what he is saying, when he hears …show more content…
For example, back when he was talking to Robert he automatically thought that his wife was a colored woman because of her name. The one thing that the narrator actually did not know about was a cathedral and that is probably because he is not a holy man. In the “Cathedral” the narrator says, “I stared hard at the shot of the cathedral on the TV. How could I even begin to describe it? But say my life depended on it. Say my life was being threatened by an insane guy who said I had to do it or else”(11). This quote explains that the narrator had no knowledge at all, in how to explain what a cathedral is because he thought he knew everything, but is now freaking out. The narrator at first tried to describe a cathedral, but could not put the pieces together and that is why he felt like he was threatened to know
The narrator starts off the story in the beginning by being very stereotypical without even thinking about what he is saying, when he hears …show more content…
For example, back when he was talking to Robert he automatically thought that his wife was a colored woman because of her name. The one thing that the narrator actually did not know about was a cathedral and that is probably because he is not a holy man. In the “Cathedral” the narrator says, “I stared hard at the shot of the cathedral on the TV. How could I even begin to describe it? But say my life depended on it. Say my life was being threatened by an insane guy who said I had to do it or else”(11). This quote explains that the narrator had no knowledge at all, in how to explain what a cathedral is because he thought he knew everything, but is now freaking out. The narrator at first tried to describe a cathedral, but could not put the pieces together and that is why he felt like he was threatened to know