Cathedral
In the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the main character discovers that to let go of his own rigid perceptions of the world is the most rewarding choice he can make. Carver, in his short story Cathedral, shows ironically how a blind man is open to ideas and experiences, in contrast to the narrator, a man who has full use of his senses but is strangely limited by his ways of thinking. In the end, Robert, the blind man, convinces the narrator to close his eyes and experience things as the blind do. Only then does the narrator feel free and pleasure In doing so, the author suggests that the mind is the most important factor in the way we view things, and that the judgments we make are often based on what our minds construct …show more content…
We learn early in the story that the story is being told from the husband’s point of view. He starts off the story by explaining that the blind man whose name is Robert is coming to stay with him and his wife at their house while he visits his dead wife’s relatives. The husband is quick to judge and also quick to acknowledge that he is not happy to have Robert staying at his house. Especially a man he has never met and old heard on tape, not counting a man that has an unusual relationship with his wife. While reading this story you being to actually wonder who the blind man actually is. The husband starts out by being very judgmental towards the blind man. He says that Robert has no business being and stay at their house. He also states that their house isn’t equipped for a blind man. Throughout the whole story we never get to know the husbands name, he judges the blind man for marrying a women who he has never been able to see. It makes the husband seem like he lives his life through his eyes instead of his heart. It seems as if he is very jealous of Robert, as he makes frequent snide remarks about his wife’s relationship with a blind …show more content…
It shows when Robert is open to new ideas and knowledge when he tells the narrator that he is open it watching anything on TV would be fine to watch because “I’m always learning something. Learning never ends.” So as they are watching a channel about cathedrals this is where they really start talking. The climax of the story comes from when the narrator attempts to explain to Robert what a cathedral is but he finds that he is not able to give a good enough description. Robert tells the narrator to draw the cathedral with his eyes closed. This is when the narrator feels free because “he didn’t feel like he was inside anything. When he is forced to use his imagination to draw the cathedral, he found that he was able to be more creative and was able to enjoy it more than what he was thinking earlier. When he began drawing he found that he “couldn’t stop he was no artist. But he kept drawing just the
In the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the main character discovers that to let go of his own rigid perceptions of the world is the most rewarding choice he can make. Carver, in his short story Cathedral, shows ironically how a blind man is open to ideas and experiences, in contrast to the narrator, a man who has full use of his senses but is strangely limited by his ways of thinking. In the end, Robert, the blind man, convinces the narrator to close his eyes and experience things as the blind do. Only then does the narrator feel free and pleasure In doing so, the author suggests that the mind is the most important factor in the way we view things, and that the judgments we make are often based on what our minds construct …show more content…
We learn early in the story that the story is being told from the husband’s point of view. He starts off the story by explaining that the blind man whose name is Robert is coming to stay with him and his wife at their house while he visits his dead wife’s relatives. The husband is quick to judge and also quick to acknowledge that he is not happy to have Robert staying at his house. Especially a man he has never met and old heard on tape, not counting a man that has an unusual relationship with his wife. While reading this story you being to actually wonder who the blind man actually is. The husband starts out by being very judgmental towards the blind man. He says that Robert has no business being and stay at their house. He also states that their house isn’t equipped for a blind man. Throughout the whole story we never get to know the husbands name, he judges the blind man for marrying a women who he has never been able to see. It makes the husband seem like he lives his life through his eyes instead of his heart. It seems as if he is very jealous of Robert, as he makes frequent snide remarks about his wife’s relationship with a blind …show more content…
It shows when Robert is open to new ideas and knowledge when he tells the narrator that he is open it watching anything on TV would be fine to watch because “I’m always learning something. Learning never ends.” So as they are watching a channel about cathedrals this is where they really start talking. The climax of the story comes from when the narrator attempts to explain to Robert what a cathedral is but he finds that he is not able to give a good enough description. Robert tells the narrator to draw the cathedral with his eyes closed. This is when the narrator feels free because “he didn’t feel like he was inside anything. When he is forced to use his imagination to draw the cathedral, he found that he was able to be more creative and was able to enjoy it more than what he was thinking earlier. When he began drawing he found that he “couldn’t stop he was no artist. But he kept drawing just the