Raymond Carver Cathedral Response

The account Cathedral by Raymond Carver is about one mans understanding and espousal of a unsighted man. The narrator represents the storys dominant theme of overcoming prejudice of the blind through personal experience as well as vulgar respect. The narrator, who remains nameless, holds deeply unfounded beliefs and stereotypes of what a blind person should be, thus far over a relatively short period of time he develops a bond with the blind man, whom at first he in camera mocked. The narrators preconceived notions about blind people are proved put on when he meets the blind man (Robert) for the first time.The narrator is not feel forward to having a blind man stay at his home. immediately this same blind man was coming to sleep in my contribute (230). Yet once Robert arrives at his home he is shocked that he does not conform to his idea of the blind. But he didnt use a cane and he didnt wear mysterious glasses. Id always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind (232 ). At supper the narrator begins to get out Robert as a capable human being rather than a burden and he remarks that he watched with admiration as Robert used his lingua and fork on the meat. Hed cut two pieces of meat, fork the meat into his mouth, and accordingly go all out for the scalloped potatoes, the beans next, and then hed tear shoot a hunk of buttered bread and eat that (233). Suddenly the narrator no longer has much to base his prejudices on. The narrators understanding of Robert is enhanced when Robert agrees to smoke tidy sum with the narrator despite never trying it before. This brings the narrator and Robert closer unneurotic as they share a moment like old friends. promptly the narrator is beginning to