Monday, January 19, 2009

Cathedral........

The short story titled "Cathedral" was very interesting. My first impression of the husband, was that he did NOT like his wife always blabbing on about her best friend ( The blind man).

But, as the story unfolds the husband warms up to the blind man and in a way seems to understand/feel the same as his wife. 

But as these two men were watching tele one evening a story about a cathedral was shown, and the blind man had no idea what a cathedral looked like. 

The husband tried his best to explain in detail what a cathedral looked like but lost heart and eventually gave up.

The blind man told the husband to get a paper and instructed the man to draw a cathedral on the paper with him also holding the pencil. 

This part of the story was just so so so beautiful, to see a man who was so uncomfortable around a blind man whom his wife spoke so highly of and who had nothing to say to this blind man, finally started to have a change of heart. Now he was seeing like a blind man sees. 

I really want to write my paper on this piece. Just the paragraph with the two men as they are drawing cathedral.

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