The Cathedral by Raymond Carver is an extremely important story about inner
             conflict, the usually wrong causes of that conflict and how enlightenment
             brings an end to such problems. The story revolves around three characters,
             a husband Bub, his wife-unnamed, and a blind man-Robert. The story begins
             with blind man arriving at Bib's place since he had been invited by his
             wife to visit them on his way from Connecticut. The blind man's presence
             irritates the husband who feels uncomfortable in his company and is quite
             jealous of the close connection between the blind man and Bub's wife.
             However over the course of the story, his feelings for the blind man
             change, making him realize that our perceptions are driven and controlled
             by wrong pre-conceived notions and televised images. The reality may
             actually be very different as Bub experiences at the end of the story.
             The main character is the story is the narrator who goes through tremendous
             inner change when he meet Robert, a blind man who happens to be a close
             acquaintance of his wife's. Narrator, who is called Bub, appears to be a
             bitter rather hostile character in the beginning that is highly judgmental
             of the blind man. BUB is a shallow soul with little regard for the blind
             man since he sees him as just a man who is trying to come closer to his
             wife. His shallow thinking is what creates a rift between him and the blind
             man in the first part of the story as Bub keeps judging him and declares:
             "I wasn't enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his
             being blind bothered me."(38) He feels threatened by the presence of the
             blind man because apparently the blind man is very close to his wife and
             being a typical superficial male, he cannot see beyond the a certain limit
             and feels that the relationship between the two must have been physical in
             nature. "Over the years, she put all kinds of stuff on the tapes and sent
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