-trades (103). In this quote, the narrator is both envious, because of all the talk about Robert, and admiring of all the things that Robert has accomplished although blind.As the night progresses, the wife begins to get sleepy and goes upstairs to change. The narrator tells us, I wished shes come back downstairs. I didnt want to be left alone with a blind man (104). At this point, the narrator does not know how to react to this man let alone what to say to him. His wife is no longer there to act as the link between the two. The narrator keeps the conversation going by offering more drinks and rolling two fat numbers (104).His wife falls asleep on the couch and the blind man stays up with the narrator because he feels as though they had not had a chance all night to talk. The narrator says he is glad for the company (105). He really means this when he says it too.They continue to watch TV for a while and the narrator, sensing the quiet, tries to tell Robert what it is that he is seeing on the television at the moment. The narrator tries to explain to Robert what a cathedral looks like but cannot think of better descriptions than big and massive. Robert suggests to the narrator that they could draw one together (108). At first the narrator draws a simple box with a roof. Then he begins to draw windows with arches, flying buttresses, and great doors (108). I took up the pen again, and he found my hand. I kept at it. Im no artist. But I kept drawing just the same (108). The blind man tells the narrator to close his eyes and keep drawing. The narrator says, It was nothing else in my life up to it now (109). This one quote shows how far the narrator and Robert have come. We never see him as a passionate or very open man but in this one scene, we see more about him than in the rest of the story. He is letting a strange man he barely knows cup his hand over his own and draw. This is a very intimate picture in my mind. Th...
