Relationships in Cathedral and the Story of an Hour

At the beginning of the story the husband is telling of a blind man coming to visit him and his wife. The narrator?s wife had worked for the blind man at one point. Since then they have maintained a strong friendship and keep in touch with tapes. The narrator talks about not looking forward to the blind

Like in “Hills like White Elephants,” the lack of communication in this story is causing a crisis in the characters’ relationship. The couple is going through this critical situation because they can’t find a mutual base for their marriage. The husband and his wife are in different levels of maturity. He is already a grown up man who doesn’t care for a cat that is getting wet in the rain, while the wife still presents a childish behavior.

The narrator’s whole idea of blindness came from the movies. He said blind people moved slow, were mostly led by dogs, were always serious and never laughed. But that just shows how ignorant he is against the blind. Throughout the whole story the narrator was the character that I didn 't like, in fact I thought he was the antagonist. He was always bringing in all the bad energy and he was an asshole. While the wife was more comforting for Robert and Robert was more laid back and going with the flow. They were all having a couple drinks and some good conversations would arise but through the end of the story, when the narrator’s wife falls asleep, the narrator and Robert start having conversations. They smoke together, watch tv and even draw a cathedral. When this happens, that’s when the narrator’s whole view changes. But until then, he still remains being blunt, insensitive, ignorant to the blind or people’s feelings.

     This story, written as the thoughts of the narrator, is about an old blind friend of his wife’s coming to visit for the first time. The story focuses on the

disconnect and in the end causing a great emotional rift to be caused between husband and wife, and

In the story, Cathedral narrator seems to be skeptical of blind people and the fact that his wife was talking to a blind man that she knew from when she worked at a clinic back in Seattle. Which made him question his own ethics after she invited the blind man to come stay at their house. what the man knew about blind people showed no emotion he got this from movies and TV shows he never actually met a real blind person in his life. this was his first time ever having the chance to meet one. from what he knew of the blind man is that his wife and he was sending tapes and messages back and forth to each other.

The narrator beings telling the readers about his wife’s blind friend that is coming to visit. The blind man’s wife has passed away and he is visiting family in Connecticut not far from their home in New York. The narrator isn’t very thrilled about the blind man coming to visit nor is he thrilled that the man is blind. The narrator explains how his wife had met the blind man over ten years ago when she responded to a help wanted ad and how she had worked for him throughout the summer. The narrator’s wife and the blind man became good friends and toward the end of her employment of working with the blind man he had asked to touch her face. The narrator describes his wife’s experience when the blind man touched her face and how it affected her so much she wrote a poem about it but the narrator doesn’t understand how that experience had affected his wife. The narrator explains that his wife and the blind man have kept in touch over the years by sending audio tapes back and forth. The narrator begins making fun of the man for being blind and mentions how awful the blinds man’s wife must have felt knowing her husband was never able to know what she looked like. The day comes and the narrator’s wife goes to pick up the blind man who is introduced as Robert. When the narrator’s wife arrives back to the house the narrator is shocked when he sees the blind man. He begins describing what

Richard is driving along a lonely road late at night after working late that day. He has a 4-year-old daughter who he has not spent much time with the entire week because of the long project that makes him work late. Similarly, he has not

Family Change in the United States." Population Bulletin, vol. 71, no. 1, July 2016, p. 1.

It was a cool October night. Jonah had just gotten off work not too long ago and couldn’t wait to get home because his new roommate, Amanda, makes the best fall dinners with desserts for him after a long day at work. Although the country roads take him longer to get home, he still sometimes likes to take them to look at the beautiful scenery. Amanda always protests against him taking the country roads, though. She always makes up strange stories hoping Jonah would believe them so he would get home quicker. He didn’t blame her. She had her own business but she worked out of the comfort in her bedroom. So she didn’t have very many visitors when he was gone.

Husband and Wife have different emotions when it comes to dealing with stressful life events.

loved each other and the couple was brilliant. No one could say that in half a year they would be divorced. Having little life experience they were likely to think this was love at first sight. Being confident they had found their better half they were married. However, with time the passion disappeared, the mystery turned into routine, the aspiration to be together was replaced by the tiredness from cohabitation and the desire to be alone had grown. In such circumstances the spouses seek for joy and satisfaction away from home and prefer the company of friends to that of the husband or wife.

Everything done in a marriage has an effect on all that is involved. When a couple works together, it is to fortify the family.

It was 4:05 p.m which meant jack was usually out of school and in the house watching tv or eating, Both he did a lot of.

*after the day is over.* Chace enters his mansion, Greeting his lovely wife. “Jane! I’m home.” A woman walks out of the kitchen wearing an apron. “Hi love, how was your day?” She had asked. “ It was fine, dear. Where’s Jace?” His 2 year old boy came out of the living room. “Daddy!” Chace picks up the boy. “There you are, buddy. Love, I have to do some work in my office. I’ll be out before dinner.” He puts Jace down. “Son, stay here with mommy, I’ll be right