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Raymond carver's short story cathedral5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Something changes inside him and the experience purges his resentfulness. ![]() He experiences what it’s like to be like Robert, to be blind for the first time. He told the narrator to close his eyes as he drew. Robert placed his hand on the narrator’s as he drew. ![]() The narrator had no words to describe it, so he did. Towards the end of the story, Robert asks the narrator to draw him the cathedral. By leaving the reader guessing as to the narrator’s motives, he makes this message as potent as possible. It’s a representation of how so many prejudices are based on nothing. Whether he’s jealous or paranoid is unclear, but his dislike of the man is made clear from the beginning. The majority of the story involves the unnamed narrator attempting to deal with his underlying hostility towards the blind man. Throughout the visit of Robert, the blind man, the narrator learns more about himself and passes on a message of tolerance and understanding to the reader.Ĭarver’s work was later published in Best American Short Stories, 1982. ![]() The story centers on an unnamed narrator, who has a strong sense of dislike towards a blind friend of his wife’s. Raymond Carver penned the 1983 short story Cathedral in an anthology of the same name. Blindness and disability is a strong theme in literature. ![]()
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