ght may cause the “blinding” of your other senses, creating a limit of possibilities in your mind. Being too accustomed to what is believed to be “normal” and the ideas attached to them create a sense of hesitation and fear that usually prevents a person from discovering new things. The narrator in “Cathedral” is an individual who understands life primarily through his eyes, only through his forced interaction with Robert and his blindness is he able to close his eye and open up his mind. This awakening reveals to him a form of communication, experience and expression that cannot just be seen. In the end it is ironic that even though the narrator was attempting to teach Robert something it was the he who seemed to gain the most from the experience. The blind man and their drawing of the Cathedral are able to defy his previous conceptions of life and thus open a vast array of new possibilities. We are left wondering how much more the narrator learned about himself and about human communication than the blind man has learnt about cathedrals. ...
