Plot refers to the events that make up a story or the main part of a story. The events that make up the story "Cathedral" Written by Raymond Carter in 1910, starts with Bub a dynamic character whose wife's blind friend Robert, whose wife recently passed is coming to visit their home. The idea of having a blind man in his home troubles Bub and Robert's blindness unsettles him. Bubs wife built an association with Robert ten years prior when she worked for him as a reader. During this time they built a friendship. They were so close that she and Robert stayed in contact by sending audiotapes forward and backward to each other all through her unhappy marriage to a police officer.
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I feel that the primary theme of "Catherdral" is the difference between "looking" and "seeing" In "Cathedral," the demonstration of "looking" is identified with physical vision, yet the demonstration of "seeing" requires a deeper level of engagement. Bub demonstrates that he is completely able to look. He takes a look at his home, his wife, and he takes a look at Robert when he arrives. Bub is not visually impaired and quickly assumes that he's better than Robert. He also feels that Robert's visual impairment makes him unable to have any sort of ordinary life. Bub believes that the ability to physically see is everything, so he puts no effort into seeing anything past the surface. Robert, in any case, can "see" on a much more profound level than Bub. Despite the fact that Robert can't physically see Bubs wife, he understands her more than Bub does on the grounds that he really tunes in. The spouse clearly has a great deal to say and has put on the audiotapes she has sent him over the last ten years. Genuinely "seeing," and actually understanding as Robert illustrates, includes much more than simply looking. I feel that Bub realizes this when he closes his eyes and draws the
When Bub's wife goes to get the blind man at the train station, …show more content…
I feel that the primary theme of "Catherdral" is the difference between "looking" and "seeing" In "Cathedral," the demonstration of "looking" is identified with physical vision, yet the demonstration of "seeing" requires a deeper level of engagement. Bub demonstrates that he is completely able to look. He takes a look at his home, his wife, and he takes a look at Robert when he arrives. Bub is not visually impaired and quickly assumes that he's better than Robert. He also feels that Robert's visual impairment makes him unable to have any sort of ordinary life. Bub believes that the ability to physically see is everything, so he puts no effort into seeing anything past the surface. Robert, in any case, can "see" on a much more profound level than Bub. Despite the fact that Robert can't physically see Bubs wife, he understands her more than Bub does on the grounds that he really tunes in. The spouse clearly has a great deal to say and has put on the audiotapes she has sent him over the last ten years. Genuinely "seeing," and actually understanding as Robert illustrates, includes much more than simply looking. I feel that Bub realizes this when he closes his eyes and draws the