Cathedral

The narrator throughout most of the beginning of the story shows his jealous side not only to his wife's ex husband, (who is out of the picture) who the wife loved dearly and showed her affection to.  However her husband now (the narrator) does not see the affection being showed to him like it was to her ex.  He is also has in the back of his mind that the that the wife's ex is an officer and he doesn't have anything to show for.  The narrator's jealousy is also shown to Robert, the narrator's wife's blind friend who comes to stay with them.  The narrator does not have sympathy for us he mainly cares about himself at the moment and is upset and disturbed that this so called blind man who is going to be invading his house.  Does he have a reason to be jealous?  No, with the ex husband out of the picture and Robert who is just being himself the narrator is mainly dealing with how he feels about himself and by tearing people apart he feels better about himself.  His wife is confused and at one point of the story disgusted at her husband of who he is and how he is portraying himself to Robert.

As the story goes on the narrator begins to understand and realize who Robert really is.  He begins to see that Robert is truly an amazing person.  He sees that being blind and going through each and every day of not being able to see the world for what it really is is beyond him.  When Robert asks the narrator to draw with him and to close his eyes, he finally understands the world that Robert lives in and is breath taken by what he sees.  In the end the narrator does change his point of view and grows into a different man than what he was in the beginning and with the authors writing skills and style it was an easy read.  Even though the sentences were cut short throughout the story it would be easy to do the same like I had in the beginning of the semester.  However I believe my grade would drop right off the bat if this was done again.