Narrator’s Initial Ulterior Motives And Raymond Carver’s Use Of First Person Poi

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Term Paper Title	Narrator’s Initial Ulterior Motives And Raymond Carver’s Use Of First Person Poi
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Narrator’s Initial Ulterior Motives and Raymond Carver’s use of First Person Point of View in “Cathedral”

     Some readers would think that the narrator is prejudice to blind people.  I will show that he is merely not educated on the matter and that he also has an ulterior motive to the way he is thinking during this story.  Carver’s decision to use first person narration helps us understand the narrator’s inner feelings.  He, in a sense, is talking to a good friend, which makes you really want to hear what he has to say.  The narrator has two issues in which to deal with: one is his prejudice to blind people, the other is the poor communication in his marriage and his dealing with the fact that is wife tells this blind man more then she has ever told him.
     The narrator begins by telling us this blind man is coming to visit his wife and that he is not too keen on the idea.  The visitor is a man who has a close, emotional, relationship with the narrator’s wife and to top it all off he is blind. Through movies he has learned that blind people “moved slowly and never laughed” (par 1), this shows he is not educated on the issue.  This is only one reason why he does not want the visitor.
     There is a clearer picture of the narrator’s feelings after he learns the name of the blind man’s dead wife.  He describes how she must have led an empty life because she could never hear her husband say how beautiful she was or see the expressions on her face.  It is at this point that the narrator understands that his marriage is t...

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