Inability to Interact with Others in Raymond Carver's Cathedral

In the cathedral of Raymond Carver, there is an extreme extreme version, from "self-discipline of the husband" to "saving" the living room, unwillingness to leave others' attention. One of the main goals of Carver in the Cathedral of the Meyer is to criticize those who failed to communicate with society in some way. In almost every short story, the hero is isolated for his terrible events, alcoholism or failure of considering others' thoughts and emotions in his life.

The cathedral is a short story by Raymond Carver. This story forms a sarcastic situation in which the blind man teaches the foresightful person to "see" truly for the first time. Near the end of the story, Carver drew two characters together in the cathedral's picture as a symbolic nucleus of the story. The narrator found at a very early stage that blinds are not particularly wanted in my house. In most stories, he observed one by one and revealed his shallowness. In the next excerpt, he imagines that a blind wife must feel in her bed of death.

The story of Raymond Carver "Cathedral" is about understanding and acceptance of visually handicapped people. The narrator expresses the main theme of the story by overcoming the personal experience and mutual respect, ie prejudice against the blind. Still named speakers have unfounded beliefs and stereotypes about what the blind should be, but in a relatively short period he establishes contact with the blind, and he is a personal I laughed at him. The narrator's invisible concept of blindness has been proved wrong when he first encountered blindness (Robert). The narrator does not think that the blind man is at his house. "This blind man is now sleeping in my house" (230). But as Robert arrived at his house, he was shocked that he did not meet the blind 's opinion. "But he did not use the crutches and did not wear sunglasses, I always thought that black glasses were necessities of the blind" (232)

Raymond Carver's "cathedral" is said from the perspective of a hostile, ignorant husband who invited blind friends to spend the night. The narrator is thought to be very painful through his future explanation of his wife and nephew. However, as the story proceeded, the tone and attitude of the narrator changed from harsh to warm and opened the enlightenment. At the beginning of the story, the narrator "blind man" departed from Connecticut, "he was visiting the deceased wife 's relatives," his wife invited the blind and spent the night. The narrator begins with "Seattle summer, she needs work," and will continue to explain how his wife's relationship started. Husbands seem to be skeptical about their relationship, and his tone is shy and boring. "He did not have any money, but she fell in love with this guy, he fell in love with her, etc." He explained a blind situation with short sentences. However, his view on the ignorance of the narrator and the life of the blind man is clear.