Cathedral Compare And Contrast Essay

Back in the day people were extremely close minded. Preconceived ideas were essential, judgement was spoken aloud, and equality did not exist. Many people refused to be around individuals that they found to be different and/or did not fit society’s standards of what the norms were. For instance the characters that will be compared have a very close minded view on others and are very quick to assume. The purpose of this paper is to compare the character known as the husband in Cathedral to Julian’s mother in Everything That Rises Must Converge. To start off, “Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "Cathedral" are similar social change concepts. In Cathedral, the husband was stereotyping Robert and blind people in general before even meeting him. The husband exemplifies this when he states “But he didn’t use a cane and he didn’t wear dark glass. I’d always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind. Fact was, I wished he had a pair” (Carver 459). …show more content…
The biggest sign of similarity between these characters is exemplifies when the husband criticizes the blind man’s wife name “Her name is Beulah. Beulah! That’s the name of a colored women. “Was his wife a Negro?” I asked” (Carver 457). They differ from each other significantly in the fact that the husband was able to overcome his prejudices by putting himself in Robert’s shoes. Julian’s mother, on the other hand, was unable to overcome her prejudice prior to her death. In Cathedral the husband’s gets a clear understand of the blind man and understands that he underestimated Robert. His epiphany occurs when drawing simultaneously with Robert and closed eyed to comprehend and be on the same playing field as Robert. Whereas Julian’s mother in Every Thing That Rises Must Converge dies without learning a morals or becoming at least a decent