“Cathedral” Raymond Carver

Read the short story “ Cathedral“ and answer the questions
1.Use your own words to respond to each question. Do NOT quote or paraphrase sources from the internet.

2.Write a paragraph of five or more sentences in response to each prompt.

“Cathedral”
Raymond Carver

1. How does the narrator feel about the blind man at the beginning of the story? Why do you think the narrator feels this way?
2. How do the narrator’s feelings toward the blind mind change by the end of the story? Why do you think the narrator’s feelings change?
3. In the last lines of the story the narrator states:

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.

How do you interpret this ending to the story? What does the narrator mean that he didn’t feel like he was inside anything?

1. How might blindness act as a metaphor in Carver’s story?