![]() ![]() According to the husband, he “had always thought glasses were a must for the blind” (5) due to its prominence in the media. Since the husband had never met a blind person, he was surprised to find Robert without dark glasses. ![]() The husband’s lack of interaction with the blind causes him to be surprised upon Robert’s arrival. The author, Raymond Carver, creates this story and highlights Robert’s strengths in order to confront the prejudices against the blind and demonstrate that those with this disability are misunderstood. If the wife had not forced her husband to meet her blind friend, Robert, her husband would continue to remain fearful of the blind due to his ignorance. These preconceived judgments only lessened his enthusiasm towards meeting his wife’s friend, demonstrating how the unfair portrayal of the blind in movies can procure false images of people with physical impairments in viewers’ minds. ![]() He was bothered by the blind because in movies, “the blind moved slowly and never laughed” (Carver 1). ![]() Due to his lack of interaction with blind individuals, the husband’s perception and fear of the blind was unjustified. In Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, a fear reinforced by stereotypes and the unknown prompts the husband of the blind man’s ex-caretaker to be bothered by the blind man’s arrival. ![]()
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