Cathedral

This story is very interesting. The narrator in this story seems to be a typical person that is ignorant to the real people around him. I first want to tackle his connection with his wife. In this story the narrator, who does not have a name, lives a comfortable life with his wife. They do not express any known love for one another they are just comfortable in there relationship. They don't go to bed at the same time, he doesn't like her poetry and he doesn't seem interested in anything that goes on with his wife. Poetry is frequently mentioned in this story.

I think that Robert shatters the stereotype for his fellow disabled comrades. Robert is a blind man yet he doesn't wear glasses, he smokes weed, he drinks excessively, and he has a beard. Now that shocked me, how many blind people do you know with a beard? When the wife tells her husband the story of how Robert and his deceased wife met, the husband says that he went a whole eight years without even seeing her. That statement let me know that the husband was a shallow man, he carried about looks a lot and did not believe that you could love someone on a deeper level than that. I kinda wish good would have made us all look the same then we could really focus on what was important, personality. The first thing that leaves us is beauty.

The husband in this story experienced one of the greatest Epiphanies yet in all the stories we have read in this chapter. The husband had experience a human handicap that carries a lot of weight and emotion. he didn't want to be left alone with the blind man but them he started to understand him. The blind man became his eyes in drawing and detailing a cathedral. Its funny that he experienced this while drawing a religious monument when he said that he did not believe in anything.