ems to find herself being embarrassed as the narrator asks Robert, “Which side of the train did you sit on, by the way?” The wife then angrily responded “What a question, which side! What’s it matter which side” as if she weren’t sure that her husband was mature enough to handle company who supposedly is blind (215). As the night fled by Robert and the narrator’s wife caught up on old times. Time passed and the narrator’s wife had left the room, getting ready for bed. The narrator seemed to feel uncomfortable as he was left alone with Robert. He then offered another drink, and also offered to smoke some dope, and Robert accepted the offer. I guess this was the narrator’s way to lighten up the air, for the narrator to sort of loosen up. His wife comes back, and they all participate in having a little smoke session. The narrator’s wife ends up falling asleep and Robert suggests staying up late with the narrator. With the television on, the narrator chitchat’s with Robert. “They’re showing the outside of this cathedral now”, as he explains to Robert what can’t be heard on television (223). As the television was airing this cathedral, the narrator wondered whether Robert actually knew what a cathedral really is. The narrator asks him and finds out that he only knows what he has just been informed through the television. Robert tries desperately to describe what a cathedral really is, “To begin with, they’re very tall”, he says, and then continuing on with as though his life was dependent on this (224). It seems as though the narrator wanted to give Robert a vision, he wanted to put Robert in his shoes for a change. The narrator then seemed to realize how bad he was doing, “I’m not doing so good, am I?” he tells Robert as if to see whether or not he really wasn’t doing too good of a job or what (2...
