Blind Man Essay

towards blindness throughout the story, however towards the end he realizes his flaws and the difference between looking and seeing. From the beginning of the story to the end you can see a change within the narrator after his encounter with the blind man. At the end of Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” the narrator hopes to accomplish a change in his understanding of himself, and his experience with Robert flickers this change towards the end of the story. The narrator in the “Cathedral” displays a lack

In this short story, a cathedral symbolizes a connection between the narrator and his blind guest, Robert. At first, it’s evident that the storyteller isn’t thrilled about Robert’s visit as he writes that “his being blind bothered me” (p 34). He then continues to write “a blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (p 34). The narrator is clearly biased toward someone with a vision disability. This bias continues to grow even bigger due to the fact that Robert shares a more personal

Carver writes a story where a man is upset about the arrival of his wife’s friend, simply because he is blind. The reader see the man’s reaction toward blind people and that causes him to consider what he is missing in his life. The primary focus is fear and dislike towards the Blind Man. Carver doesn’t give a name to any characters but the story revolves around Robert the Blind Man. Carver writes, “And it bothered me that he was blind” (1). He goes on to describe the blind by claiming, “My idea of blindness

died at the age of 50 of lung cancer but his stories continue to live on. For my first paper I will be analyzing “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver. In “Cathedral” Carver uses setting, characterization, and also symbolism to reveal that the narrator is blind, even

visit their home. He begins to describe Robert, the old friend, who is a blind man. The narrator emphasizes on how he has a limited point of view on blind people in general. Robert’s own wife, Beulah, had died recently of cancer. The narrator then begins to tell about his wife’s past, as the story flashes back. He includes details on her previous – and also unnamed – husband, but focuses on how she became friends with the blind man. The narrator then describes about his wife’s attempted suicide, and

popular quote “never judge a book by its cover.” “And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness come from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs” (Par.1). This quote automatically informs the reader that Bub is judging the blind man for being blind. He does not want to be around the blind man or have the man in his house at all, simply because he is blind.

Raymond Carver, is about a man who tries to understand and accept a blind man that his wife had invited to stay at their house. In a short amount of time, our unnamed narrator who has a firm hold on what a blind person should be, undergoes a change when he comes face to face with one. Having thought that all blind people needed canes or black tinted glasses to cover their eyes, his assumption of blind people went out the door when our narrator comes face to face with the blind man, Robert, for the first

“Robert had done a little of everything, it seemed, a regular blind jack-of-all-trades” (Carver 264). Robert is the influential blind man with a unique ability of “sight”. He is not blocked by the blurred vision of stereotypes or the mentality that he may be unable to perform certain actions. A visit to an old friend transforms into a spiritual reunion for the narrator. In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”, Robert’s, the blind man, meaningful “sight” creates a new, optimistic outlook on life

narrator. Later in the night, as they are relaxing in the living room, the television begins to talk about cathedrals. Not surprisingly, the blind man has no clue what a cathedral is or what it looks like and asks for the narrator to describe it. Because cathedrals are very complex, this is a difficult task and the two resort to drawing together to inform the blind man. After Robert places his hand on top of the narrators, they begin. As they are drawing, Robert asks the narrator to close his eyes, he

over a blind man (whose wife had just died) she used to work for in the past to their house to reconnect after years of corresponding through audiotape. This visit by the blind man, named Robert, has the narrator feeling uneasy as he possesses a biased point of view towards blind people. This biased point of view takes form to the readers through first person narration (175), allowing the reader to see an in depth point of view of a specific character in this case the narrator. When the blind man arrives