Themes In Raymond Carver's Cathedral By Raymond Carver

Cathedral “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver was made to help show people that it doesn’t pay to be Jealous. Carver shows a perfect example of people often fearing things that are different that do not understand. The narrator of this story a man whom the name is never mentioned feels threaten by his wife’s relationship with her old blind boss named Robert. Throughout the story, Robert will prove to the narrator time and time again that he is nothing to be worried about. From the beginning, you get the feeling resentment towards Robert before he even comes "A blind man in the house was not something I looked forward to” (carver 86). This due to how much his wife interacts with Robert, for years he watch his wife send voice recordings about her life to this man. The narrator feels as if he is being neglected all through most of this story. The narrator was also childish when it came to Robert and his wife who had died “all this without his having ever seen what the goddamned women look like”(carver …show more content…
The wife interaction with Robert helps her through a time when she was at her lowest. she was always on the road with her previous husband and lonely, Robert help her to become the women that the narrator is now married to. In return when Robert 's wife dies narrator’s wife feels she open her doors to help Robert because he has no one. It is at this point Robert tries to get to know narrator who since from the beginning of the night has made no attempt to talk with Robert. It is not until Robert tells the narrator to draw with him do you start to see a change in the relationship of these two. Robert draws with the narrator showing him how to close his eyes and picture what he trying to draw. In a way, Robert shows the narrator what it is like to be blind but still be able to see through imagination he realized how Robert lived his life being