Examples Of Judgement In Cathedral

In Cathedral, the unnamed narrator, husband, defines the character of Robert as an anomaly in which he doesn’t comprehend. “He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (Carver 1983). The media has been able to lead people like the narrator to develop negative opinions towards those with disabilities creating a type of phobia. After hearing stories about Robert, told by his wife, he could not imagine this blind man having a good life, one worth living. He assumes that Robert’s wife, Beulah, had lived a very pitiful life as well, not having her husband ever knowing what she looked like or what subtle nuances her facial expressions could only show through sight.

I enjoyed reading “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. The story is realistic, relatable, and meaningful. The main protagonist, Bub, is arrogant and superficial. Because of Robert’s intimate relationship with his wife, he does not like the blind man. To cover up the fact that he is jealous, he states that he never had a blind man in his house before and that Robert does not have the characteristics he thought blind people have. Robert does not wear glasses, has a beard and etc. On page 90 he says, “I always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind.” This shows that even before he met Bub, he already had some preconceived picture of Bub that hinders him from really getting to know the real Bub. However, towards the end of the story he seems

In the beginning of Raymond Carver’s, “Cathedral” the protagonist, who was also the narrator, was not sympathetic towards the blind man. The main character had many preconceived notions about blind people and did not consider life inside their shoes. When they first met, the protagonist felt disgust and lack of empathy towards Robert, the blind man, but he restrained from showing his emotions. It is also very noticeable that the main character was continually jealous of the attention and admiration that his wife gave to her friend, Robert. “I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife’s sweet lips: ‘And then my dear husband came into my life’ -- something like that” (Carver 37). It was an immature mindset that was caused by an unsympathetic and uninterested thought

Prejudice is an issue that is present in communities around the world due to diversity in race, religion, sexual orientation, lifestyles and physical disabilities of others as well. However, sometimes it just takes a life changing moment for one to realize that he or she should not discriminate against others just because of their appearance or beliefs. In the story “Cathedral”, author Raymond Carver writes about a man who is prejudging towards his wife’s blind friend, Robert, who will be visiting the couple. At first the narrator, or “Bub” as Robert nicknamed him, does not like the idea of Robert staying there because he is blind. Once Robert arrives, “Bub” does not really make an effort to get along with him; they had dinner together

While first impressions are usually correct, according to science, judgments are anything but correct in these three short stories. “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Conner, contain assessments made wrongly about one or two characters. In “A Rose For Emily”, the judgment of the town is reserved for Emily Grierson, the old, “eccentric but harmless” woman. In “Cathedral”, the narrator evaluates an older blind man named Robert, who is a friend of the narrator’s wife. In “Good Country People”, the family misjudges the nice young man who sells Bibles, and the mother refuses to see her daughter as she is.

You can never seem to know what's going on in another ones life, unless you put your feet in there shoes, so to judge, is simply ignorance. Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" is a story about how the narrator is uncomfortable with having his wife's blind friend, Robert, over. Roger has lost his wife, and to cope with her death, he planned to visit the narrator's wife. Without any knowledge whatsoever on how to act in accompany towards a blind man, the narrator seems to get a glimpse of what it is to truly fit into the blind mans shoe.

Response Paper 5 I find the ending of Raymond Carver’s story, “Cathedral”, a refreshing, awe inspiring change to the endings of past few short stories we have read in class. The ending plays a significant role in the story because it causes a change in the perspective the protagonist has towards blind people and ultimately how he judges others. In the beginning of the story, Robert, the protagonist, has never personally met a blind person and makes many judgments about how the old man will be before he enters the house. He concludes about the blind man and his wife, “They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together – had sex, sure – and then the blind man had to burry her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman

Aided by the assistance of the aforementioned substances, the husband questions Robert, asking if he knew what a cathedral was. Robert, the blind man, regurgitates some information he had learned from the program before reverting the question back to the husband. The husband, struggling to answer, is struck by the sobering epiphany that the two men are not so different after all. Carver’s deliberate implementation of the first-person narrative in “Cathedral” invites the reader to witness the husband’s evolving perception. Initially, the narrator, being the husband, has a relatively self-centered and judgmental character.

In the story "Cathedral", by Raymond Carver, the narrator is conflicted with issues of inner-demons that are manifested in a blind man whom he perceives as a danger to his marriage. The narrator in this story is a good example of an anti-hero showing negative characteristics while never actually being a bad guy. This gives the idea that he is very humanistic character. That being said, he is a flawed character who is just trying to please his wife while not giving up what he wants. In the end he realizes that he can have both revealing a very enlighten experience. Over the entire story the narrator is confronted with different moments that gradually alters his perspective and changes him for the better.

Sometimes we have to look beyond what we see on the outside to understand something more deeply. In the short story Cathedral By Raymond Carver, the narrator has an attitude of being selfish, and jealous through the story. The narrator’s wife invites a blind man, Robert, to come stay in their house for a short time while the man visits family members of his own wife who recently passed. The narrator is not enthusiastic because blind people make the narrator uncomfortable, mainly because the narrator has no real experience with the blind. In addition, to his uneasiness with the blind the narrator is uncomfortable with the relationship his wife and the blind man have. The wife and Robert, the blind man, have maintained a close

In the short story “Cathedral”, written by Raymond Carver, the story is told through the narrator’s eyes as the audience gains insight on his perspective of his life and, more specifically, his views on his wife and her blind friend. The narrator’s name is never mentioned throughout the story, but his personality and initial narrow-minded bias towards his wife’s friend Robert depicts his character traits. Throughout the story he does not seem to change his views, but once he experiences Robert’s point of view in his life, the narrator changes his perspective. This suggests the narrator is a dynamic character in the story due to his change after getting to know Robert.

Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral”, depicts a story that someone-------?. It starts off with the narrator talking about his wife and a blind man who comes to visit them more so his wife. It’s the first time narrator would be meeting Robert the blind man. The narrator already has assumptions of what the blind are like, many proven wrong when they finally interaction. At the end, the narrator’s perspective is changed from their interaction.

“And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed...A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.” The main character and narrator of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” harbors such predetermined assumptions about his wife’s visiting friend, Robert, who happens to be blind. Throughout the story, the narrator describes his wife’s past, which includes details about her first love, how her acquaintance with Robert came to be, and Robert’s impression on her life in the preceding years as they exchanged audiotapes to keep up with one another. Robert’s arrival and company begins to defy and change the narrator’s postulated ideas about blind individuals and even influences the narrator to act more open-minded. Nearing the end of the story, when the television portrays certain European cathedrals, Robert requests that the narrator draw a cathedral with him and has him close his eyes, which ultimately alters his understanding of himself and the world. As many elements of the story reflect Raymond Carver’s own life, the audience can gain a sense of his personality through the narrator and Robert. Through the narrator’s need for intoxication, narrative style, and his depiction of his wife and Robert, the irony that even though the narrator and his wife are not blind, they are still missing a sense of satisfaction in their lives while Robert, unable to see, understands the world and the key to happiness.

In almost every story there is a meaning, whether that meaning is obvious or not is up to the readers’ interpretations. In some stories, that meaning hides behind a character, how that person acts, thinks, or express themselves and how they change throughout resembling growth. In Raymond Carver’s “The Cathedral”, the unnamed husband narrators the tale of his wife’s old blind friend Robert coming to visit after not seeing each other for years. They had remained in contact through audiotapes, but the husband seems to not understand the significance of their relationship, showing distaste with the visit for the majority of the story, due to his uncomfortableness. In this story, the writer displays his tale and its morals; by using the narration of the husband; Carver shows that there comes to be more meaning behind this bitter man that meets the eye, which argues the fact that perhaps this unlikable narrator is truly the antihero.

In “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver writes seeing, looking, and feeling multiple times throughout the story. Cathedral is about two men bonding disregarding their prejudice, and physical differences. Carver writes passages that describe the difference between looking, seeing, and feeling; revealing that the main character’s connection to Robert gets stronger as the story progressed, emphasizing the importance of the connection between the narrator and Robert throughout the story. The passages emphasize the importance of how relationships develop and strengthen over time and show how they can form between people that had prejudices or preconceived notions against those people.