People With Disabilities In Raymond Carver's Cathedral

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How do people with disabilities handle the world around them and how does their disability affect the people around them. Although there are many challenges related to many disabilities, these characters handle them in similar ways they find someone to talk to or be friends with to teach them to see or speak however they also teach the people around them that a disability is not a defining property of their personality. People with disabilities teach us not to discriminate or stereotype against others. In cathedral there is a blind man who is asked to stay with an old friend and her husband just thinks he is miserable and that he will be depressing because he can't see. The blind man teaches the narrator that his sight is not what makes him happy and that there are many things in the world that can make you happy.(Carver 10). When the narrator is asked to draw the …show more content…
Even though the narrator was taught not to discriminate and stereotype there are still many people who do. In the short story Brownies there is a troop of Brownie scouts who were all african american and they went to camp with another group that were all white and one of the white girls was mentally challenged and overheard one of the african girls say the N-word which of course the african american girls took as racism because that's what they associate that word with. This girl with the disability taught the others to be considerate when it comes to people with disabilities(Packer 22) when the girl said the N-word to one of the african american girls she was met with hate and annoyance because no one considered the fact that she might not know what it meant or have control over what she said. The african american girls were stereotyping the girl with the disability because it's all the know, once they figured out she was mentally challenged they felt
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