#9 Response to Carver “Cathedral”

     In the article, narrator talks about his experience with his wife’s blind friend. At the beginning, his wife seemed to have a special relationship with the blind man, which made the narrator jealous. That is a funny part and reduces me to read and find out what happen later on. When they met, the narrator showed unfriendly to the blind man, and he didn’t know how to communicate with a blind man since he never had a friend liked that. The atmosphere was a little awkward until his wife fell asleep and they began a real conversation. The narrator tried to watch the blind man’s feeling and described cathedral on TV. Then, they started to draw a cathedral as the blind man suggested. It was a different experience that the narrator never had before. At the end, I think he could understand the blind man more.

     The narrator mentions that the blind man touched his wife years before, and himself was drawing the cathedral with his eyes closed. It tells me even though someone is blind, he could or has to feel the world in other ways. It might be more about a feeling deep in heart.