Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, is a short story illustrating the narrator’s insensitive thoughts and emotions towards his wife’s blind friend and his own limited awareness or (interference) with himself. The narrator then experiences freedom like he never has before alongside Robert, the blind man. Carver interprets different forms of blind both physically and mentally or emotionally.
The unnamed narrator makes _________ remarks towards Robert and his wife. He first begins with asking his wife if Robert’s wife, Beulah was a Negro because of her name. Once his wife flips put by the question, he simply responds with “I’m just asking”. The narrator doesn’t watch his comments around his wife even if Robert is her friend which displays his insensitivity …show more content…
“Then I said, ’I’m glad for the company.’ And I guess I was. Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep. My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time. When I did go to sleep, I had these dreams. Sometimes I’d wake up from one of them, my heart going crazy.” The narrator finally reveals his intuition that he's not as happy as he might think. In a way, Robert inspires him to realize that he is lacking for company. Further, “dreams,” the metaphoric value of which are pretty clear, are something he deals with. He is haunted by dreams of what he doesn't have, and it's this unadmitted longing that is given shape through his experience of drawing the cathedral with Robert. The TV then shows a cathedral and they began talking about how Robert has never seen one and the narrator tries to describe it, but doesn’t do a successful job. Robert asks the narrator to bring in a pen and a cardboard paper. The narrator draw the cathedral with Roberts had over his. “So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life up to now. Then he said, ‘I think that's it. I think you got it,’ he said. ‘Take a look. What do you think?’ But I had my eyes closed. I thought I’d keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do. ‘Well?’ he said.
The unnamed narrator makes _________ remarks towards Robert and his wife. He first begins with asking his wife if Robert’s wife, Beulah was a Negro because of her name. Once his wife flips put by the question, he simply responds with “I’m just asking”. The narrator doesn’t watch his comments around his wife even if Robert is her friend which displays his insensitivity …show more content…
“Then I said, ’I’m glad for the company.’ And I guess I was. Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep. My wife and I hardly ever went to bed at the same time. When I did go to sleep, I had these dreams. Sometimes I’d wake up from one of them, my heart going crazy.” The narrator finally reveals his intuition that he's not as happy as he might think. In a way, Robert inspires him to realize that he is lacking for company. Further, “dreams,” the metaphoric value of which are pretty clear, are something he deals with. He is haunted by dreams of what he doesn't have, and it's this unadmitted longing that is given shape through his experience of drawing the cathedral with Robert. The TV then shows a cathedral and they began talking about how Robert has never seen one and the narrator tries to describe it, but doesn’t do a successful job. Robert asks the narrator to bring in a pen and a cardboard paper. The narrator draw the cathedral with Roberts had over his. “So we kept on with it. His fingers rode my fingers as my hand went over the paper. It was like nothing else in my life up to now. Then he said, ‘I think that's it. I think you got it,’ he said. ‘Take a look. What do you think?’ But I had my eyes closed. I thought I’d keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do. ‘Well?’ he said.