The use of marijuana is introduced in the short story, we experience how the two characters interact and open up to each other. While smoking the joint together, the narrator is amazed by the fact that even blind men can smoke, “like he’d been doing it since he was nine years of age” (Carver 45). The narrator eventually comes to the conclusion that visual impairment does not prevent a man to be the same as him but rather everything is somehow similar. However, he raises that his better half’s robe has disappeared and this introduces us to mother defining moment in the story when he says “What the heck” on the grounds that the blind man cannot see at any rate.
The subsequent encounters between the blind man and the author of the story inform us to the fact that the visually impaired man is a conventional man and does not pose as a threat to the relationship between the narrator and his wife .we further get to know that the narrator always experiences nightmares at night, something which forces him to stay up late to avoid them. All this happens as a result of the two being high. …show more content…
The effects of the marijuana prompts him to start explaining to the blind man on the structure of the church. This description captivates the blind man making him get curious about how the church really looks like. The narrator goes to the extent of helping the blind man draw a church by guiding him using his hands (Carver 40). In drawing the house, the storyteller gets involved with the blind man and this is how all his assumptions about him are brought to light.in conclusion, the narrator changes his perspective about the visually impaired visitor in
The subsequent encounters between the blind man and the author of the story inform us to the fact that the visually impaired man is a conventional man and does not pose as a threat to the relationship between the narrator and his wife .we further get to know that the narrator always experiences nightmares at night, something which forces him to stay up late to avoid them. All this happens as a result of the two being high. …show more content…
The effects of the marijuana prompts him to start explaining to the blind man on the structure of the church. This description captivates the blind man making him get curious about how the church really looks like. The narrator goes to the extent of helping the blind man draw a church by guiding him using his hands (Carver 40). In drawing the house, the storyteller gets involved with the blind man and this is how all his assumptions about him are brought to light.in conclusion, the narrator changes his perspective about the visually impaired visitor in