In the short story “Cathedral”, Robert a blind man comes to spend the night with his old friend that read to him summers prior. Even years after she has left him they keep in touch through the years with videos sent back and forth. The wife of the narrator is Roberts’s old friend. Readers can see how the narrator is a dynamic character who was closed-minded in the beginning of the story but by the end he has an opened-minded prospective on life. He learns that it is possible to see something for just plainly what it is, or look deeper into what is going on. The narrator goes from learning that just looking at something is one thing, but to actually seeing it is another.
Through-out the story we see this narrator is closed-minded to everything. He sees things for what is just on the surface …show more content…
By the end of the story the narrator draws a picture or the cathedral with Robert. Robert tells him to close his eyes which would take the narrator out of his comfort zone because that is all the narrator knows is what he can see. Now that he has to draw with his eyes closed he must think about what the cathedral is. A deeper view into what he saw just with his eye. This is the epiphany. By the end of the drawing Robert has a sense of what a cathedral was, but the narrator finally learn to “see” without actually have his eyes open. “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.” (115). The Narrator has a sense of freedom from the world that he was living in. Amazingly enough he learns this from a man who has never seen a person or object in his life. Someone, who we learn, the narrator thought he would never be able to learn or experience anything from. So the narrator actually learns the most important lesson from Robert, self-freedom and instead of just looking at something, seeing what it truly
Through-out the story we see this narrator is closed-minded to everything. He sees things for what is just on the surface …show more content…
By the end of the story the narrator draws a picture or the cathedral with Robert. Robert tells him to close his eyes which would take the narrator out of his comfort zone because that is all the narrator knows is what he can see. Now that he has to draw with his eyes closed he must think about what the cathedral is. A deeper view into what he saw just with his eye. This is the epiphany. By the end of the drawing Robert has a sense of what a cathedral was, but the narrator finally learn to “see” without actually have his eyes open. “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything.” (115). The Narrator has a sense of freedom from the world that he was living in. Amazingly enough he learns this from a man who has never seen a person or object in his life. Someone, who we learn, the narrator thought he would never be able to learn or experience anything from. So the narrator actually learns the most important lesson from Robert, self-freedom and instead of just looking at something, seeing what it truly