Blog on Cathedral by Raymond Carver

     Going into this story knowing nothing about the author and only the title itself, I was worried this was some story from the 17th Century like we started with when I took a world literature at community college, but I was glad to find out this was more modern and more enjoyable for me to read. This story is essentially about a blind man who comes to visit a couple. The wife has been friends with the blind man for a long time, and I sense a lot of jealousy from the husband. At the beginning of the story he seemed very uneasy about him coming into his home, and he could sense the tension of feeling inferior to his wife because of him as he narrates the story. He must have felt like how his wife could be attracted to someone with a disability, when he was in perfect condition, though it seems the blind man was more kind to the wife than he was. Eventually, the husband becomes more comfortable with the blind man, and the husband wants to show him what a cathedral is as they are watching a T.V. program on the subject. They begin to draw a cathedral together, and at the end the husband closes his eyes, and tries to visualize their drawn cathedral in his mind. It's not like the husband goes from cynical and jealous of the blind man to a kind-hearted and sympathetic person, but it seems as though me makes an attempt to relate to him by closing his eyes, and visualizing the world around him.