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In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral". the conventional ideas often associated with blindness and sight are challenged. Although the title suggests that the story is about a cathedral it is really about two men who are blind, one physically the other psychologically. One of the men is Robert, the blind friend of the narrators wife, the other is the narrator husband himself. The husband is the man who is psychologically blind. Carver deftly describes the way the husband looks at life from a very narrow minded point of view. Two instances in particular illustrate this, the first is the husband seems to believe that the most important thing to women is being complimented on their looks, the second is that he is unable to imagine his wife's friend Robert as a person only as a blind man. As the story progresses, we can see a change in the husband he seems to be able to see Robert as a person and not just as a blind man.
One example that shows the husband is "blind" comes in the......

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