Analysis of Cahtedral

Cathedral A married couple is expecting the visit of the wife’s friend, a blind man. The wife met the blind man, named Robert, ten years ago, while working for him in Seattle. The wife’s man has never met the blind man and therefor he is a bit nervous about his visit. When you read the title of the short story, “Cathedral”, you immediately thinks the story might have a religious theme or that’s the story take place in a cathedral. However, in Carver´s short story, the cathedral functions as a symbol; it represents the cathartic turning point in the narrator´s