Blinded By Ignorance (Cathedral)

Cathedral

I find it very interesting that a blind man could know so much. Robert the blind man, he does not want to be treated differently by the narrator and his wife. He just wants company. His wife has died and he does not want to be alone. It surprises me that a blind man could know so much, he can not see anything, but just the way he feels things and hears them is very impressing. He is just as aware about anything as any other person who is not blind. Why pitty a person if they know just as much as you do? The narrator is stubborn. He is like the other characters in this book. He drinks, watches TV and is indifferent with his wife. He is weak, because he feels jelousy towards the blind man and he feels uncomfortable. Only a weak person would not know how to act around a disbale person. Robert changes him. Robert puts the narrator in his shoes. Its incredible how both fo them with their eyes clothes are able to draw a Cathedral. The secret must be trust, you don’t have to see something to know how it is, but maybe you just have to feel it and then be able to imagine it. That is exactly what these two men did. It is important to always trust your instics. The narrator is able to feel emoptional at the end, when at the beginning he was just annoying to his wife and did not care for a blind man’s visit. This blind man probably changed his life, he probably changed the narrators way of looking at life.
I think that this story is ironic, because it has to do with a blind man, but the message being that people are blind. The blind man has a better life and a better way of looking at life, while the others live in a world full of jealousy, alcohol, and ignorance. They don’t care about anything. I think the whole book has to do with this. All of the characters are so ignorant. The book ends with Cathedral, because that’s how Carver makes his point. That how he shows that some people just don’t know where they are standing, but the a blind man does. It is not the blind man who is blind, but the other people who are blind. They have their eyes wide open and they can not even see the world as it is.