Blind spot

narrator isn’t actually blind, he lacks awareness that makes him more blind than the actual blind person in the story, Robert. The narrator begins talking about how he knows what a blind person is like from the movies he has seen. Blind people to him “moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs” (Carver 200). As the story…

the narrator, his wife and Robert, gave an interesting impression towards the theme of the story. The narrator’s actions towards Robert flowed from beginning to end leading to the narrator’s realization of his newfound feelings of what Robert, as a blind man, had been going through. His blindness and loss didn’t hinder his way of life, yet allowed him to teach the narrator something important. Robert’s visit and stay at the narrator’s home with him and his wife, lead to the narrator achieving…

and grow alongside to allows a community to form and become a life that is centered around those people and activities that will ensue in that community. In the story Cathedral The Blind Man and the Wife are friends whose community expands as the Wife invites over the Blind Man to her and the Narrator's home. The Blind Man and the Wife were friends whom bonded along with his then deceased wife who died of cancer and within this friendship…

In the short stories “What of this Goldfish, Would You Wish,” and “The Wife’s Story,” by Elgar Karet and Ursulu K. LeGun, respectively, and the majority of the opinion by Justice Brennan, ”Texas v. Johnson,” characters or people do not show acceptance of others who are different. In the “Goldfish” story a young man from Israel named Yonatan decided to make a documentary of him going door-to-door to ask strangers what they would wish upon if they had a goldfish that could grant them three wishes.…

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…

Similarly, to a blind man, he has lost his direction, ‘I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside of anything’ . What he knows and what he feels have become opposites leaving him unsure of his surroundings. Robert has slowly been able to convince the narrator to understand what he must deal with, and this reality leaves the narrator unnerved and confused as his perspective. What he knows about the blind man has changed. He no longer just sees him as another blind man ‘in…

because he feels he is better than everyone else. Throughout the story, we see the narrator start to change little by little to start to accept the blind man for who he is as a person. As they are eating dinner together there is a documentary in the background playing called the “cathedral”. This documentary makes the narrator realize what it is like to be blind. Robert asks what is being shown on the screen, and the two of them draw a picture of the “cathedral”. The title helps show the…

Raymond Carvers short story “Cathedral” is centered around a man, his wife and her blind friend Robert who comes to town to stay with them. The narrator holds himself high while treating his wife disrespectfully and judging Robert based on his disability. Carver shows the differences between the two men and how Robert ultimately awakens something in the narrator who he calls “Bub.” Conflict, characterization and irony are used by Carver to give life to the theme of this story which is seeing…

other characters present in the story. His wife’s first husband is dismissed with the statement, “Her officer—why should he have a name? He was the childhood sweetheart, what more does he want (p. 300)?” Robert, is referred to only as, “the blind man” or “this blind man” throughout most of the story, and his wife’s name is never revealed and the little background info provided is scattered and…

for the wife and how she talked about the blind man, Robert, she knew for years, but the narrator’s dialogue gave the readers a negative feel towards his ignorant attitude: “A blind man in my house was not something I look forward to,” (Carver 84) and “Beulah! That’s a name for a colored woman” (87). Also, the narrator is very possessive of his wife, even though throughout the whole story there seemed to be a stronger, emotional connection between the blind man and the wife than between the…