Cathedral_By_Raymond_Carver

Cathedral By Raymond Carver “Cathedral” Raymond Carver While this story is clearly about prejudice and stereotypes associated with blindness, and about the narrator being blind too the deeper things in life, one of the most intriguing parts to me involved the relationship between the narrator and his wife. The visit of his wife’s friend, Robert, clearly brought out the insecurities in the narrator, about himself and about his relationship with his wife. One way we see this is that he takes a very long time, pages, demonstrating how close his wife and Robert are. When she brings Robert into the house, the narrator says, “She was beaming. She had this blind man by his coat sleeve.” Also, Robert says, “Do I look distinguished, my dear'” And the narrator adds, “...the blind man said to my wife.” While he doesn’t outright state that it upsets him, he seems to be implying it. After dinner, the narrator says, “Robert and my wife sat on the sofa. I took the big chair.” Again, he merely states the facts, and doesn’t actually say that it bothers him, but I believe it clearly does. Also, the narrator clearly feels jealous cathederal, robert, narrator, wife, says, about, blind, story, man, things, relationship, one, felt, feels, comfortable, clearly, way, seems, replies, himself, close, believe, visit, time, thought, tells, stereotypes, sounds, something, say, said, past, part, out, much, maybe