Cathedral of Raymond Carver

Paper instructions:
From my point of view, the blind man is the only one that has a name because he is the one that makes the story take another course once he arrived to the narrator’s house. That blind man makes the narrator appreciate things beyond theirs appearances, and we can see that when the narrator says, “I watched with admiration as he used his knife and fork on the meat” (Carver, 1983, p.2684). On the other hand, this blind man play the roll of the wife’s unconditional confident. The wife have with him the friendship she would never have had with her husband. That blind man is the person she feel comfortable talking to. Between the wife and Robert, there is a kind of innocent complicity where they need each other to feel completed. Robert offers her the compressible part she is missing in her husband.
Actually, the idea of drawing the cathedral was Robert’s, and his objective was definitely to show the narrator the importance of feeling the things instead of just seeing them. “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything” (Carver, 1983, p.2689) the narrator did not need to see the cathedral while he was drawing it to know that it was there. In that moment of the story, he realized that the blindness of Robert does not make any difference in Robert’s way to see the world. The narrator definitely enjoyed the blindness feeling for a moment.
And the professor give us the option of extending it into an essay. These are some of the questions she gave us to answer:In Carver’s story, why do you think the only one with a name is the blind man? Why did Carver choose to give him a name? What is the significance of his name? What does the man’s blindness have to do with the marriage of this couple? Why did the two men decide to draw a cathedral?
In “Cathedral”, what is the narrator’s problem with connecting? Is he connected with his wife. Do they understand each other? What is the significance of the blind man’s lack of vision? Does this represent anything? How are liquor and marijuana used in this story–what do they help do or prevent from happening? Finally, what is Carver trying to say in the ending when the two men draw the cathedral together.

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