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When she tells the blind man goodbye, he asks if he can touch her face. He tries to describe the cathedral, but when he can't, he attempts to retreat back into cynicism. Suggestions Use up and down arrows to … He called my wife from his in-law’s. His wife is annoyed, and spins it to ask Robert if he has a TV. He was a son of a sawmill worker and grew up working hard majority of his life. Born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, Raymond Carver was destined to be a writer.
Both men are sitting on the ground (same level) and the narrator has his eyes closed, which in some ways mirrors Robert’s blindness.
The narrator keeps going – "I couldn't stop" – even as the TV station goes off-air. Maybe they're out of style now, I don't know. Robert has a spiritual side and helps the narrator experience a spiritual epiphany when they draw the cathedral together.Love is not just a word. He draws a "box that looked like a house" – "it could have been the house [he] lived in" – and continues to add onto it. The sighted man changes. ".The narrator is impressed with how little like a stereotypical blind man (dark glasses, a cane) Robert looks. With many of the stories in "Cathedral" I kept thinking, "And...?" . He saw this opportunity as a turni.Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. She showed it to the narrator when they started dating, but he didn't care for it. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of,Published Short Cuts This film by Robert Altman is not exactly a film version of "Cathedral," but rather a film based on various Carver stories. Mostly, the narrator just listens (it's about what happened "to them," not him, he thinks), occasionally chiming in so that Robert doesn't think he's left the room. This may be important as previously the reader sensed that the narrator viewed himself as superior in some ways to Robert, due to the fact that he can see and Robert can’t.This sense of equality between the narrator and Robert is explored near the end of the story. After eight years, however, Beulah died from cancer. Unhappy with her life, she tried to commit suicide one night by swallowing pills, but she survived.
The narrator considers how to describe them, but can only muster simple descriptions – "They're very tall…they reach way up." He pours them another drink and asks if Robert would like to smoke marijuana.
Each story explores everyday moments in humanity, as well as common issues like relationships and alcoholism. With his eyes still closed, he says the drawing is “really something.”.SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. The narrator suggests taking the blind man bowling. They smoke for a while, until the wife tells Robert his bed is fixed upstairs and then she falls asleep on the couch. And then this [from Robert's tape]: "From all you've said about him, I can only conclude—" But we were interrupted, a knock at the door, something, and we didn't ever get back to the tape. It’ll be okay. Almost all of the stories in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Maybe they're out of style now, I don't know. For all people, love has different means. In another sense, they transcend the physical. The narrator is clearly jealous of his wife’s strong connection and relationship with her friend, just as we suspect him to be jealous of his wife’s first husband. Robert asks him if he’s religious, and the narrator says he doesn’t believe in anything. Finally, Robert tells the narrator to close his eyes and continue to draw. They shake hands, and then she leads him to the sofa. This absence delivers as powerfully as anything else how shaken and affected the narrator is by this experience.The characterization does a lot to disguise the narrator's primary problem: he is detached from his life. With many of the stories in "Cathedral" I kept thinking, "And...?"