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Discussion Board: Raymond Carver’ “Cathedral”
The narrator says near the beginning of the story: “They’d married, lived and worked together, slept together-had sex, sure-and then the blind man had to bury her. All this without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like. It was beyond my understanding. Hearing this, I felt sorry for the blind man for a little bit. And then I found myself thinking what a pitiful life this woman must have led. Imagine a woman who could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of her loved one. A woman who could go on day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved. A woman whose husband could never read the expression on her face, be it misery or something better.”
Question: What does this statement reveal about the narrator’s perception concerning the physical and emotional aspects of humanity? What does it reveal about his own qualities as a husband and his view of relationships as a whole?
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