![]() The narrator asks rude questions about Robert’s wife, and the narrator’s frustrated wife explains Robert’s marriage to his late wife Beulah. She protests and implores him to be kind to Robert, who is spending the night at their house after a visit with his recently deceased wife’s family. Snapping out of his internal monologue, the narrator makes cynical jokes about Robert’s blindness, asking his wife if he should take Robert bowling. The narrator also recounts how his wife reached out to Robert for support after an unsuccessful suicide attempt fueled by her miserable relationship with her husband, whose military career caused them to have a nomadic existence. At the end of the summer, Robert asked the narrator’s wife if he could see her by touching her face, and the experience was a deeply memorable one for the narrator’s wife. His wife, in need of money and engaged to her first husband, took a summer job assisting Robert, a social worker. ![]() The narrator remembers the circumstances that precipitated the friendship between his wife and Robert. Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” opens with an internal monologue in which the narrator expresses his hesitation about hosting Robert, a blind man who is a friend of the narrator’s wife. ![]()
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