American Literature

In order to answer these questions, we discuss and analyze that until the end of the story, the narrator has a hard time connecting with any individual, especially his wife. Throughout the story he is deploring about his wife, and her allegedly irrational obsession and companionship with, the blind man Robert. He tosses in sarcastic remarks about her verses, her ex-husband, and much else. He does not seem to be connected to his wife. (Carver, 2007)

In Cathedral, Robert, the blind man, could be said to represent the narrators that is the husbands prejudices.  Prejudice, in spite of everything, is a sort of blindness.  The husband, as the story continues, discovers that Robert is not just a blind man he is a special human being, one who occurs to joke, smokes and wear a beard. (Carver, 2007)

Immediately upon Roberts entrance, the narrator offers him a drink, and mentions that liquor is a bit of a pastime for him.  Possibly, the narrator is a drinker.  They resolve in and attractive rapidly have some drinks.  This assists to relax up the narrator a bit it places him at ease, and makes him less anxious about Roberts visit.  They smoke marijuana after dinner and that relaxed the narrator even more. He becomes easy-going and comfortable with Robert, although normally he is an uptight and picky man. This provides him to be open to the experience that ends up impacting him so significantly, the drawing of the cathedral with his eyes closed.  If he hadnt been calm and alleviated through liquor and marijuana he might not have allowed to letting a man catch his hand and direct him through drawing a cathedral.  The smokes and drinks relieve his apprehension and through the drawing of the cathedral, he has a very subterranean experience.  He is able to glimpse certain things from somebody elses perspective for the first time in his life.  (Carver, 2007)

The narrator has a life-changing experience, or an epiphany, at the end of Cathedral, while endeavoring to notify Robert what a cathedral appears to be. The narrator, when first endeavoring to interpret what the cathedral looks like, fumbles for words. However, upon Roberts support, loosens up, and sketches the cathedral with Robert, directing his hand with a pencil onto a paper. (Carver, 2007)