![]() ![]() In the flashback, the reader is made to understand that the narrators’ wife and the blind man met when the wife of the narrator worked for the blind man as his reader. ![]() The narrator gets a moment to flashback on the circumstances under which the blind man and his wife met. As a matter of fact, the blind man is not even given a name because what seems very important to the narrator is the fact that the man is blind. The introduction of the story emphasizes the dislike and fear directed towards individuals who are blind.įor this reason, the author uses the words “the blind man” in his introduction of the story. ![]() The narrator is upset with the visit of the blind man simply because he is blind. ![]() The conversational tone of the narrator is a clear indication to the reader that he is not happy about the blind man’s visit. The story opens with the narrator who is a man very upset with the fact that a blind man who is a friend of his wife is about to arrive. regarding the life of the Raymond Carver, who is the author of the story, Webster (3), observe that the story came at a time when he had quit his heavy drinking, he had also survive an annulment of his marriage. It is against this backdrop that Raymond Carver wrote the short story entitled “The Cathedral”. During this period, the gap between the rich and the drastically widened, the poor became poorer and the rich wealthier. ![]()
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