Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Cathedral Response to #4

In the last third of the story, Robert asks the narrator to describe a cathedral to him. With Robert being blind, the narrator has trouble with the details. The blind man then asks him to draw it on paper to get a better image. In the end of the story, Robert asks him to close his eyes but to keep the pen moving. With the blind man's hand on top of the main character's, the narrator describes himself as feeling as if he wasn't "inside anything." 
This is great because in this whole story till the end, the narrator isn't too caring to the blind man. Although he is polite, the blind man seems to be oblivious to the narrator's actions. But at the end, it's as if the main character gets a feeling of how a blind man feels when they are lonely. Although the wife was the one that invited Robert, it's as if he has a stronger relationship toward the narrator's emotions and feelings. 
In the end of the novel, the last quote by the narrator is, "It's really something." This is giving you the impression that he is beginning to realize that blind men see something possibly more then a regular man would see. 

1 comment:

Ace said...

this story isn't about understanding the handicapped.
3) Depth of thought, either in asking insightful questions(not rhetorical ones) or insightful comments that illustrate complexity of the text
5) You avoid summarizing the plot, rather use the plot to illustrate your point.
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