Summary Of Raymond Carver's Cathedral

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Cathedral story by Raymond Carver is a good story showed that the true definition of the different between seeing and understanding through two men character as a blind man- Robert and a sight man-narrator who are not actually they are sight. In the Cathedral, the narrator is a sight man but he is actually a blind man who can see everything by his eye but doesn’t really understand things happened and lack of ability to solve his problem. For example, he know what the wife is doing such as telling him about her activities: write the poem, talk to her past marriage, and exchange the stereo tapes to the blind man all ten years…, but he doesn’t understand what her desired above her telling.. Instead of understanding the wife desired he just blame on her …show more content…
Now and then I joined in. I didn’t want him to think I was feeling left out. They talked of things that had happened to them-to them!—these past ten years. I waited in vain to hear my name on my wife’s sweet lips: “and my dear husband came in to my life”—something like that. But I heard nothing of sort. More talk of Robert. Robert had done a little of everything, it seemed, a regular blind jack-of-all trades” (40). The way he feels pitiful for the blind man’s wife for the blind man has never seen her appearance and give compliment on her till she die but he doesn’t understand how they was happy together on their marriage. He defines a good relationship base on how people see what they look likes he feels pity on them but he ever look back how bad is his relationship right now?- a man can see everything who better than a blind man. And when the blind man want him to describe the cathedral had shown the truth that he can see thing but he really doesn’t make any sense of it so that he couldn’t describe it such as he couldn’t reach his wife feeling as he is a blind man cover up with a bright eye: he said “ you’ll have to forgive me,”
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