In Raymond Carver's short story, Cathedral, we meet a man who overcomes his prejudices he has towards a blind man. They don't know eachother, only heard of eachother through the stories of the man's wife. The husband has a lot of negative images in his mind about blind people and he does not anticipate the arrival of Robert with happines. We can clearly see how little he thinks of the blind and feel the disgust in his lines. In order for him to understand blindness, he has to change his views about blind people. But why is it so hard to identify with the blind? As the wife tells the stories about her own life and Robert, we come to the feeling that the husband cannot really „see" her as Robert can. He could not understand how she could establish such a deep relationship with a blind man and why he had asked her to let him touch her face. He is scared of the idea that a blind man is visiting them and deep inside mad at his wife because he cannot understand why she is so anxious to have a problematic blind man accomodated at his house. He also does not understand why his wife is writing poems; he considers poetry somewhat useless. We soon realize that this man is not on the same emotional level as his wife, and that his conceptions about life are very different than hers'; he is not willing to see the world as she sees it. The wife plays an important role in the story because she is the one who leads him closer to blindness, to Robert. She tells him and us, that even if Robert can't see, he has the power to see things with his mind. She could build up a close emotional relationship with Robert, and this is what the husband really cannot understand. In fact, he tries to understand their relationship, but his knowledge about the blind is limited to what he had seen on TV and read in magazines. Since he never met any blind persons before, his imagination takes over him and he makes prejudgements about R...