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the story the narrator refers to the old friend as “the blind man” (Carver 455) and makes it clear that he “wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit.” (456) Although, the narrator embarks into unknown territory while preparing for the visit and while engaging with a blind man during his stay, he finds himself seeing the world in a new light. The narrator, whom is eventually referred to as Bub

Cathedral: One Blind Man to Another In Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, the reader is given a glimpse into the precarious relationship between the narrator and his wife. The narrator shares his heavily critical point of view on the forthcoming visit from his wife’s old friend whom he calls “the blind man” later known as “Robert”. Specifically, Carver uses first person narrative to put the reader in the mindset of the speaker who although keeps information hidden about himself, eventually exposes a substantial

“Cathedral”, by Raymond Carver, focuses on one main person, Robert who is a blind man. The story consists of three main characters: Robert the blind man, the husband and the wife. The story is written in third person, in the perspective of the husband. The story starts off with explaining how the wife was old acquaintances with Robert the blind man, the way Robert and the wife kept in touch was they would send tapes of them talking and updating them on what was going on in their life. Robert and

Seeing the Method of the Blind through Touching and Listening The theme of sight in Raymond Carvers “Cathedral” and W.W. Norton “The Elephant in the Village of the Blind” gives you an insight of how blind people uses all their senses in a way that we as people take for granite. Because we have a feeling of seeing which they do not have do not make us better because we that see lacks in using our other senses to our advantage. In both of these stories, the author takes you through the thoughts

and person she used to work for to come visit due to his wife dying. The old friend is a blind man whose name is Robert. The author in the “Cathedral” uses symbolism, imagery, and irony to provide more meaning to the story. The narrator of the story has a stereotypical opinion on blind people while being blind to his own imperfections, but he is able to start seeing it more clearly through the blind man’s eyes. As the story goes on they are able to connect on another level and achieve their

he undergoes development. The story opens with the narrator's unconcern for meeting the blind man, Robert, which is because he was uninvolved in the friendship between the blind man and the narrator's wife. Feeling intimidated, he discloses, "I wasn't enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me" (Carver 1). This emphasizes the narrator's unwillingness to bond with the blind man, which is made visible as the story progresses; moreover, he does not acknowledge

The narrator’s attitude in “Cathedral” changes completely throughout the story. He feels, at the beginning of the story, uncomfortable and annoyed with the fact that a blind man would be staying in his home. “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me… A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.” The narrator is a very judgemental person and stereotypes Robert into a category he had already created inside of his head. He is not

As I've played limit holdem for over 100,000 hands, I've found that there are basically two types of bad players. Not every bad player will fit in these two categories, but most of them will. Calling Station The first type is the calling station. You'll find these players mostly in the small stakes. They get their name from their favorite action - calling. They don't raise very much. And frankly, many of them don't fold unless they have a really bad hand. They just love to call. They will call

too good about the blind man in the first paragraph he says that the only experience he has had with blind people was in the movies when they were often the person that moved slowly and did not laugh. The narrator did not have such a positive view on people that were blind because the narrator thought they were people that he could not relate to and were for the most part simple. When the narrator's wife was talking about inviting the blind man over she says the that the blind man’s wife had just

together in the end. People tend to be blind to the world, until guided by someone with another insight on the world. By allowing this experience into his life, Bub is letting go of the bitterness in his life and I believe this will change him for the better. As the story begins Bub is what I consider self-centered, narrow minded, and