Davis 1 Jack Davis Professor Clarke Writing through Literature 13 September 2014 Seeing Through Blind Eyes “Then he said, ‘I think that’s it. I think you got it,’ he said. ‘Take a look. What do you think?’ But I had my eyes closed. I thought I’d keep them that way for a little longer. I thought it was something I ought to do. ‘Well?’ he said. ‘Are you looking?’ My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. ‘It’s really something,’ I said.” This is the closing conversation from Raymond Carver’s short storyCathedral. The story has a first person narration that is telling his experience of when his wife’s friend comes to visit after his wife has just died. His name is Robert and he is blind. We call the narrator “bub”, because we are never given his name and this is the nickname he is given by Robert, bub’s wife’s friend. Bub
