Lack Of Awareness In Raymond Carver's Cathedral

Raymond Carver in his narrative, “Cathedral” portrays his lack of awareness by stereotyping an impaired man whose name is Robert. Robert was in the end welcomed to visit the narrator and his wife with the expectations of spending the night at their home. In any case, this disturbed the spouse since he had just seen impaired individuals in only movies and conceives that they are pathetic and discouraging. The blind man and the narrator’s wife had a great relationship, which some way or another joined them both. For a long time, they had been sending audiotapes via mail sharing their high and low points, regularly as companions would do. Moreover, she would inform Robert about her undesirable and cold marriage which was essentially based upon

She began to tell the narrator about Roberts and his wife’s condition how his wife passed away from cancer and that he should make Robert feel comfortable when he arrives. The narrator then feels frustrated about Robert how his wife had passed away and that he had not perceived how she looked like. When Robert arrives they have dinner and later on end up enjoying his company. After dinner, the woman leaves both men alone and goes upstairs to change her clothes. When she returns, she goes along with them by smoking pot and afterwards falls asleep. The narrator feels uncomfortable being left with a blind man so he chooses to turn on the TV and watches a documentary about Cathedral wondering if Robert has any clue of what a cathedral is. He neglects to depict Robert what it is since he thinks that the cathedral has no significance and doesn’t believe in such things. Robert advises the narrator to start drawing while he puts his hand on his. When he begins to draw the cathedral he gets himself intrigued and draws more point by point even while he had his eyes shut. The narrator had kept his eyes shut; yet he had the feeling of seeing things that he had never seen even with his eyes open. The drawing of a cathedral made the narrator look at things from a different angle, where he could see things that were not easily noticeable. Raymond Carver, in his story