Blindness And Prejudice In Raymond Carver's Cathedral

Arrogant can easily lead to prejudice towards other people. When we feel superior over others, it actually narrowed our sight and stops us from learning new things. In the story "Cathedral", Raymond Carver illustrate that people tend to be prejudice towards people with disabilities. He also brought out the idea that we can understand their world only when we stand in their shoes. The story helps us understand the world better in several ways. The story reveals that people with disabilities easily become the target of discrimination. In the story, the narrator feels superior over the blind man, Robert and he feels that Robert's wife had a miserable life because she had married to a blind man. The story also brings the idea that people have limited sight even when our eyes are able to see. The narrator has a pair of well-functioning eyes, yet at some point, he is unable to see what Robert saw until he experience the world from Robert's point of view. In the other hand, Robert is blind, but it doesn't stop him to live a normal life and keep learning new things. …show more content…
The narrator was described as rude, arrogant person. He feels superior over people with disabilities and black people. At the beginning of the story, he views things superficially, which probably the reason that he has a bad relationship with his wife. After he interacts with Robert, he changes his view about people with disabilities and learned to understand others. Robert is opposite to the narrator. Although he is blind, he has a beautiful mind. His blindness doesn't stop him from making friends and had a loving marriage. The narrator's wife seems to have a better relationship with Robert than with him. In the story, She likes poem and the narrator doesn't understand them. However, their relationship might improve after the narrator learned to understand