Ying Li Dr. Muriel Brennan ENG 110AG Feb. 11, 2008 Literature Response Sheet Title: “Cathedral” Author: Raymond Carver Narrator: a participant as the husband, and he is immature. Setting: in the narrator’s house at night Protagonist: Robert (the blind man) Antagonist: the narrator (the husband) Characters: the wife, Beulah Symbols: cathedral is a symbol of things one has to see by heart. Polarities: the blind vs. the healthy, Stereotype vs. Real life experience Theme:Prejudice can be overcome through life experience. Response: The first impression of this short story is the transformation in the narrator’s attitudes toward Robert, a blind man. At the beginning, the narrator was bothered by this blind man. “He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me. … A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (Carver 99) and even “he touched his fingers to every part of her face, her nose---even her neck!” (Carver 99). He was also
