![]() ![]() For Carver, therefore, literal blindness is far less damaging than emotional blindness-after all, Robert has a rich and satisfying life, while the narrator needs to perceive the world more like Robert does in order to feel whole. ![]() This experience precipitates a spiritual transformation within the narrator, one that leaves him newly able to find meaning in his life and empathize with Robert and his wife. Cathedral by Raymond Carver follows the story of the narrators jealousy, and ignorance towards his wifes relationship with Robert a blind man she used. Robert, a blind social worker with a gift for perceiving the unspoken emotions of others, places his hand on the narrator’s as they draw a cathedral. In “Cathedral,” however, it is a blind man who heals the perceptual failings of a man who can see. Jesus uses his own spit to make mud and then cakes it onto the blind man’s eyes, which brings sight to a man who has never been able to see. In his exploration of these two meanings of blindness, Carver’s story inverts the famous Biblical story of Jesus healing a blind man. She graduated from Cathedral High School and Trenton. It represents both Robert’s lack of sight and the narrator’s more intangible failures of perception: his inability to understand other people’s feelings and his inability to find meaning or joy in his life. BARNEGAT Robert Larry Cox, 75 of Barnegat, NJ, formerly of Trenton, NJ passed away on May 12. In “Cathedral,” blindness has a two-fold meaning. ![]()
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