Blind spot

The blind woman represents the Japanese population ignoring the problems of the workers. Kitsune says, “The woman never speaks to us, no matter what questions we shout at her” (Russell 28). There is no hope for these girls because there is nobody that is willing to stand up to the agent and save the girls. The blind woman is clueless to what is happening with the girls. They are being completely mistreated and forced to do labor that violates human rights. The blind woman is representative…

the monster is literate and can speak eloquently. In an attempt to find some kind of connection with a person, the monster decides to befriend the blind man in the small house. The blind man is specifically chosen because he can’t see how grotesque the monster appear. The monster waits for the rest of the De Lacey’s and Safie to leave so that the blind man is alone. The monster goes inside, and begins to conversate with him. However, not too much is said between the two because Safie and the De…

often taken for granted as it is in "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver. The title suggests that the story deals with a cathedral, but it is really about two blind men; one physically, the other mentally. One of the men is Robert, the blind friend of the narrator's wife, and the other is the narrator himself. The narrator is the man who is mentally blind, and unknowingly describes his own prejudice. Carver writes the husband as a man with a very narrow mind. Two instances in particular illustrate this…

ironically, a blind man soon helps him see. This character, never actually given a name, is also the narrator. Carver’s decision to withhold his name is intriguing since he gives the blind man a name, Robert. The narrator in “Cathedral” himself produces an antisocial, prejudiced personality for others to interact with, but shows the greatest amount of change throughout the story. The narrator seems not to show intimacy as he struggles to understand his wife’s emotions with the blind man and…

self-centered, and even prejudice. Also even though he is not described as being blind himself, he does seem to be blinded to his wife’s thoughts and feelings, as well as to things he does not understand. The main character lacks intimacy, and seems to be condescending at times. But what makes this story so interesting, are the changes he is able to make with a simple gesture of trying to describe to Robert the blind man, what a cathedral looks like. Robert’s character in this story is key to…

connections however, this hinders the narrator's ability to connect with people as he is not able to see below their superficial attributes. Because of his insecurity and lack of understanding, the narrator is constantly criticizing and making Robert, the blind man, feel inadequate. This is because the narrator feels threatened by Robert’s ability to make meaningful relationships with people. The narrator expresses his insecurities by obsessing over his“ wife’s word, inseparable (Carver, 88)”…

In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral", the narrator seems to have a small minded approach towards life. In the beginning, the narrator ridicules his wife's past lover, and Robert's (the blind man's) wife, Beulah. When the narrator begins to explain the story behind Robert's wife, he states that there wedding "was a little wedding—who’d want to go to such a wedding in the first place?—"( page 3). In this, the narrator is seen to be negative and bitter towards Robert. Similarly, the narrator ridicules…

“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is a short story set somewhere in the state of New York during the early stages of color television. The wife, Beulah, brings a blind man, Robert, over to her house to introduce him to her husband. During that evening and most of the story, the focus is on the husband’s view of the blind man and how it changes once he spends time with him. At the end of the story, the husband is experiencing something that he did not predict would happen, and is surprised by it. By…

Can a person be gifted with perfect sight and yet still be blind? Raymond Carver attempts to answer this question in his short story “Cathedral” when he suggests two types of blindness: physical blindness which leaves one without visual perception and a narrow-minded blindness which causes one to fail to see the true side of people due to his or her stereotypical views and fixed opinions. In fact, in this story, a physically blind man happens to see more of the world, in a cognitive way, than a…

The inefficiency and reduced quality of care in this case clearly are the lack of information regarding Raymond. It is clearly lack of medical information and lack of family members to represent and accompany him in his time of need. It seems that Raymond was alone and for all intent ad purposes homeless if he as living in a motel. At 78 years of age Raymond is at the age where he should have family and friends. Most likely sons, daughters and even grandchildren of age. It is sad that Raymond in…