Character Analysis: An Analysis Of The Story The Cathedral

In the story the Cathedral the plot starts with, the exposition. In this story the wife has a friend that is coming to stay with them. His name is Robert, and he is a blind man. The narrator who is the husband is very uncomfortable and voices it regularly. But his wife tells him, that she would treat his friends with kindness and that he should do the same for hers. She was very agitated at all of her husband’s comments. She began to tell him about Robert’s wife, Buluah. She had taken over reading to Robert when the wife left to be married. Buluah and Robert fell in love and married and lived a happy life for eight years. When Buluah was diagnosed with cancer she passed away within months of finding out. The husband feels bad for Robert’s …show more content…
They ended up watching a show on cathedrals because nothing else of interest was on this late at night. Robert said he didn’t mind what they watched because learning never ends and it won’t hurt for him to learn something tonight. They watched for a while, the husband adding what he thought Robert needed to know that was not being stated by the Englishman who was narrating the show. After thinking a bit the husband asked Robert if he even knew what a cathedral was or if he knew what it looked like? Robert said I know what I have heard the narrator say in the show about how they were built but to tell you the truth I don’t know anything else or how they look. I wish you could describe one to me. I would really like that Robert said. The husband stated describing the cathedrals they are tall they go up and up to the sky. They are so big they have to have supports, they look like viaducts. Some have Lords and Ladies, or even devils and such into the front (Carver). The husband continued to explain the best he could of what they looked like. That they were made of marble and stone. In those days they were built high because men wanted to close to God. God was an important part of everyone’s life from looking at the care and detail to the cathedrals you can tell this. That’s the best I can do in explaining for you the husband told …show more content…
Robert wanted the husband to drawl together on a heavy piece of paper with a pen. A shopping bag was the best he had because that is what he brought over to set with Robert and they started drawling together. The husbands had was covered by Roberts, press hard he to him as Robert kept encouraging the husband to go on. Even when his wife the wife awoke. Robert told the husband to close his eyes and keep drawling the husband said, it was like nothing else in my life up to now (Carver). They were done drawling and the husband kept his eyes closed and Robert asked him. What do you think? “Well?” he said. “Are you looking?” my eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. “It’s really something,” I said