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Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” the narrator must converse with an individual that lives an extremely dissimilar life from his own. A blind man, friends with the narrator’s wife and a recent widower, has come to live with the narrator for a while. This sudden change in the narrator’s life does not come easy because of his inherent arrogance and prejudice. Nevertheless, the blind man remains polite and shows the narrator how similar, yet still different their lives are through example as well as an explicit

Carver regards a middle-aged man (the unnamed narrator) whose wife invites her blind friend to their house to spend the night. The narrator is displeased with his wife’s friendship with the blind man, and overall fails to understand it. The narrator is portrayed by Carver as an apathetic man who continually fails to form connections with his peers, especially his wife. However, after spending some time with the blind man, the narrator experiences a transformation. In this story, the author helps

Support your answer with evidence from the text. The creature decided that he will meet De Lacey when others are not around. He believes that he will be successful because De Lacey is blind and won’t react the same as others. “I revolved many projects, but that on which I finally fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone.” (Shelley, 121) How does the creature’s meeting with De Lacey turn out? How do Felix and Agatha react to the creature, and why do you think the creature

“Cathedral”: Overcoming Prejudice The unnamed narrator in the short story “Cathedral” has a great dislike towards his wife’s blind acquaintance named Robert while being absentminded to his own limitations in acceptance. Naturally, the narrator has the ability to see with his eyes but places great limitations on himself which holds him from acquiring greater understanding. This prevents the narrator from going above and beyond the existence of physical attributes. On the other hand, Robert who cannot

In both Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, the protagonists exhibit a kind of selfishness. Although they share this similarity, they present their selfishness in different ways, and ultimately make very different life decisions based upon this. The Rawling family had “everything right, appropriate, and what everyone would wish for, if they could choose.” The husband and wife, Matthew and Susan, had a picture-perfect marriage, “…people to whom others came for

worked for a blind man. The blind man and the husband’s wife, kept in touch throughout the years by sending cassettes back and forth in the mail. The blind man’s wife recently died and the husband’s wife invites him to say in her home, but her husband is displeased by this request. In the beginning of the story, the husband is very rude to the blind man and finds amusement by making fun of the blind man’s disability. Throughout the story, the husband’s opinion about the blind man changes and

The theme is the man finding his inner self through the blind man. For example; the blind man and the Narrator were going to draw a Cathedral together, and the blind man asks the man to close his eyes, and then the blind man put his hand on top of his hand and began to draw. It was not like nothing else in his life and he enjoyed the experience and that he could relate to the blind man (Craver, 1981, p. 32) The plot begins when a blind man comes to visit his wife they had not seen each other

The society questions why it is so challenging to communicate with foreigners. "The Country of the Blind" is a short story first published in 1904 by H.G. Wells. He is well known for his science fiction novels. This short story is focusing on sight and blindness and brings up the theme of prejudice versus learning. In the novel we follow a traveller, who ends up in an unfamiliar strange place, which set him in learning trail, figuring out who he really is. How does the writer illustrate the difficulties

pitfalls (Bady, 2016). Blindness in a figurative sense can be seen as a split between ignorance and concealment. Literarily, it can be seen in the following phrases—Blind ignorance (lacking knowledge), blind stupor (lacking awareness), blind prejudice (lacking a critical or questioning attitude), blind taste test (tasting without looking), blind presentation (lacking preparation or information) (Paterson, 2014). Blindness not only means the lack of vision but also the lack of intellectual perception. In

cathedrals which brought them closer to their God. Similarly, people place so much importance to the physical eyesight and tend to think they can hardly live without it. Robert, a blind man, is invited to the narrator’s home and the narrator is shown troubled by Roberts’s disability. Later on, the narrator is amazed to see the blind smoking despite having even thought of helping him with his drink earlier on (Carver 516- 524). The latter brought to attention that as much as natural looking is essential