Friendship
In Raymond Carver's story, "Cathedral", there are three main characters that includes the wife, husband, and Robert. The husband thinks that the blind man is coming to his house to snatch his wife away from him. The husband is jealous of the blind man at the beginning of the story, but he later becomes friends with the blind man after understanding that blind man is just a friend of his wife. The husband rejects the idea of a blind man in his own house. "A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to" (32). This shows that the husband wants the house to his wife and himself and the two of them only. At this point in the story, I feel he's just like any other man that's fighting for his own family's territory. The space is about to be invaded by a predator, the blind man that is going to stay at his house. The husband has an animal type mentality where he protects his mate and fights off other males who he considers an enemy. The husband feels like he's going to be left out when Robert arrives at his house. The wife tells her husband the story of how she met Robert in Seattle when she was working for him. Robert asks the wife if he can touch her face on the last day worki
He gives the impression that he is selfish and possessive of his wife. His wife responds to that point by telling him, "you don't have any friends" (34). On the other hand, this couple thinks smoking up is a normal thing to do. But the blind man keeps on insisting he wants to stay up longer and wants the night to continue. The husband tries anyway to make the blind man look like he's a bad guy by asking him "to smoke some dope" (37). The wife later walks into the room and rolls up a joint with them also. This shows the plan that the husband wanted to show that the blind man was a drug addict didn't work. This illustrates how close a friend the wife and the blind really are. The blind man and the wife arrive at the house where they start talking about what's been going on in their lives in the last ten years. He's saying he's never had any blind friends as a phony excuse just to keep the Robert out of his own house. He's a lonely man without the companion of his wife. This shows that the husband is just sitting alongside the two of them like a stranger. He disrupts the chat to get the interest of his wife back on him, but it didn't work. The husband doesn't open up his eyes to give an opportunity to get to know the blind man and doesn't want to meet him at all.
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