Cathedral

The first thing that I noticed as I began to read is that there were no names mentioned. The author also used a variety of sentences. Some of the sentences sounded awkward, like the sentence in the first paragraph that said, “ He was no one I knew.” He also stated stereotypical remarks about blind people. As if he didn’t believe that blind people were human.
In the second paragraph, Carver talks about him wife’s ex-husband. He does this by talking about the man his wife married. The paragraph also tells about how his wife met the blind man mentioned in the first sentence. And the ironic part is that he said his wife always tried to write a poem about it. It was like he wasn’t giving her any credit.
After the next paragraph, the author begins to refer to himself in third person again, but in the middle of the paragraph he goes back to first person. I have never seen this before in a piece of writing. His wife’s suicide attempt was really unexpected.
I really enjoyed the conversations between the blind man, Robert, and the narrator. Robert discloses many of the stereotypical things the narrator though about blind people. I think that the narrator was really shallow and unable to realize how ignorant he sounded throughout the story. For example, the way he prayed at the table was very concerning.
The relationship between the narrator and is wife is not extremely loving. It seems as if they are very comfortable around each other and each day is a continuous cycle.