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Raymond Carver had his wife’s blind friend, Robert, join them for a few days, he should’ve been more understanding and empathetic with Robert’s blindness instead of just avoiding it or brushing it off as if it’s not there. Carver did very well in changing his ways and learning to accept and understand Robert. Carver also did a good job of differentiating the acts of seeing something and really understanding something or someone. At first, he disliked Robert because he was blind. Carver even pondered over

his house and wife, and he looks at Robert. The narrator is not blind and therefore assumes that he is superior to Robert. Robert’s blindness, the narrator believes, makes him unable to have any kind of normal life. The narrator is certain that the ability to see is everything and puts no effort into seeing anything beyond the surface. With news of a guest coming, the narrator is immediately put off. Furthermore, knowing the man is blind instantly puts an image in his head of what kind of person he

In the short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the word “blind” acquires different meanings. The unnamed narrator is metaphorically blind; he can look at the surface of everything but not see what is inside. Although the narrator can listen to conversations, he cannot understand the deeper emotional context the conversation might hold, compared to Robert, who is visually impaired but can truly listen and understand. It is not until the end of the story that the narrator metaphorically opens his

tells of a visit that a blind man called Robert took to the narrator’s home. Jealousy from the narrator’s wife’s companionship with Robert and the narrator’s prejudice causes him to dislike Robert. However, at the end of the visit, the narrator and Robert create a drawing of a cathedral together using each other as guidance. In this short story, “Cathedral,”

Cathedral, Bub speaks of Robert, the blind man very disrespectfully. Firstly, as Bub recalls to the reader the moment before Robert arrives, he speaks in very short sentences. The short sentences indicates how unpleased Bub is with the blind man visiting. Bub shows his disrespect towards Robert by telling the story and referring to Robert as, the blind man. Bub is telling a story of the past, therefore he is aware of the blind mans name yet, he chooses to call him, blind man. Another reason for Bubs disrespect

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.

In the story The Bass the River and Sheila Mant, W.D. Wetherell portrays our narrator as a very dynamic and round character.. The narrator is definitely dynamic because their priorities have changed throughout the story. The narrator says, “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life…” (Wetherell 4) which shows them realizing that Sheila Mant was no longer as important to them as themself. The narrator is also static based on the following traits. They care very much about appearances based on how

In his short story “Cathedral” Raymond Carver uses a unnamed narrator to tell his story in a first person point of view. Other than his name we get to know that he has a wife who's blind friend's, Robert, wife just passed away and he is visiting her family in Connecticut. During Roberts stay in Connecticut he will be staying at their house. While the man was able to see perfectly from his eyes he wasn't able to see his surroundings and others feelings. On the other hand Robert was lacking eye sight

This short story interested me in a way no other story has. Have you ever met a visually impaired individual in your life? If not church gives you the storyteller's perspective from a man who has never met a visually impaired individual. Through the spouse's words and activities when he is managing Robert, the visually impaired man, we can see that the spouse does not "see" or comprehend what Robert's visual deficiency means or how it changes or does not transform him as a person. At first Robert

Philip Sidney’s sonnet, “Thou Blind Man’s Mark,” the speaker describes his personal experience with the vice of desire. Buy expressing the abstract and hazardous nature of desire it becomes evident that the speaker acknowledges both his disdain for the subject and his struggle to overcome it. The initial quatrain builds the idea of the “blind man’s mark,” known as desire, with the speaker presenting progressively derogatory comments about it. By addressing desire as “the blind man’s mark” the speaker