The events described in Cathedral, a story by Raymond Carver, occur one night, yet we have a tendency to see a series of transformations. Bub, the narrator of Cathedral, smokes marijuana and drinks a lot of scotch. Bub can get completely unpleasant when he's jealous. At the end of the story, all the characters can experience dramatic changes and even different visions. Cathedral explores the possibility of positive transformation through a productive message. “I don't have any blind friends,” I said. "You have no friends," he said. "Point." (Cathedral) Neither understood that the narrator would actually have a friend by the end of the evening, or at least the possible start of a friendly one. Bub's report believed that a blind person's behavior stemmed largely from media-generated images of blindness: "My idea of blindness came from movies." (Cathedral) Bub had believed that "a blind man did not smoke because" he could not see the smoke go out. Jealousy is not a sign of a healthy relationship. But the narrator seems to want to please his wife. She says, "If you love me, you can do this for me. If you don't love me, that's fine. But if you had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit me, I would make him feel comfortable." (Cathedral ) He speaks. He shows her that he loves her by making Robert feel happy. The narrator shows his wife that he loves her the way she asks him to. The passage claims that she loves the narrator because I love you, I would be kind to your friends. Bub is afraid that when Robert shows up, he will. I see that your wife and Robert are more than friends. But he doesn't follow this instinct. Once he meets Robert, he realizes how foolish he has been. Not because his wife... was halfway there. ...and if he sees the cathedral, he cannot describe what he sees because he does not know it. Only by drawing the cathedral with his eyes closed will the narrator bridge the gap between seeing and understanding. During this story, the narrator, who is biased, changes drastically when a blind man, Robert, opens the narrator's eyes to understand the deeper meaning of the world around him. The story focuses primarily on the narrator, and through the approach, Robert changes the narrator's perspective about the world and him. At the end of the story, Robert has a friend, no longer a danger or an adversary. Absorb the fact that Robert is a good man and that his wife and Robert are just friends. It also presents a common knowledge, which instead seems a bit absent. Bub could also establish a better relationship with his wife.
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