Cathedral

Cathedral is a story about a blind man coming over to a couple’s house to stay for the night. The husband is jealous of the blind man because of the stories his wife has told him about the blind man. When the blind man arrives the husband tries to make his stay uncomfortable. The blind man later makes a seemingly uncomfortable time and learning experience so the husband can see how it is to be blind and the benefits of it.

1.     The narrator wasn’t happy that the blind man was coming because he heard stories from his wife about there past together. Because of these stories, the narrator is jealous or envious of the blind man.

2.     Robert touching the narrator’s wife’s face shows how he wanted to feel her presence. Poetry was the narrator’s wife’s way of describing her life. These poems helped others to see deeper into her as a person. Because she was always moving around, she couldn’t open up to people and have good relationships with them. She couldn’t be understood and this lead to her wanting to commit suicide.

3.     When you receive another’s friend you become open to them and accept them because they are friends of your friend.

4.     Robert “saw” Beulah on a deeper level than most people see their spouses. Since he couldn’t see her face he cared for her because of the way she talked and through what she told him. He was able to focus on personality and inward appearance instead of an outward appearance. They fell in love with each other through talking not by looks.   

5.     The main characters are smoking pot because it relieved their stress. The narrator was able to relax and became friendlier towards the blind man.

6.     Churches can reveal where God is and how he is apart of the service. In cathedrals God is seen as a grand spacious being, so the roofs are higher and everything seems to be open. Religion is deeply integrated in culture so the way their churches are can describe the people.

7.     The narrator can only describe the cathedral by what he sees. He probably has never been inside a cathedral to describe it properly. Through feeling the of the cathedral they drew he can use his imagination and actually see the cathedral.