Raymond Carver `Cathedral` #11-3

1 . What is your initial reaction to the narrator in this story and the way he reacts to his wife 's invitation to the blind man ? Does that response change at all when you see how the blind man relates to him

During the time I was reading the literature , I was very much disappointed with the narrator 's point of view regarding the blind man As he did not personally know anyone blind , he had a stereotypical idea about blind people , and this idea specifically came from movies : In the movies , the

blind moved slowly and never laughed . Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs (Carver , 2002 , 99 . Hence , the thought that a blind man was coming to their house repulsed him : A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to (Carver , 2002 , 99 Thus , the narrator appears to me as a narrow-minded person who only thinks of himself . He also seems to be someone who does not consider other 's emotions towards another person . While his wife was very passionate about her blind friend Robert , he did not pay attention to the reasons why both of them were still close to one another . He also did not seem to care about his wife 's stories about her blind man friend who had just lost his wife and needed a friend whose company can make him forget the pain that he was feeling . In addition , the narrator discriminated the blind man as if he was...