When most people think of the blind, they tend to imagine a person with black sunglasses, a seeing-eye dog, and a cane. These are stereotypes and obviously do not remain true for all blind people. In the short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, the main character is jealous and critical of his wife's friend who happens to be a blind man. It is the combination of these attitudes that leads to one's own "blindness." It is through this initial blindness that the character gains his or her greatest vision. The new “Cathedral”; includes three characters. These characters include the narrator, his wife, and his blind friend Robert. At the beginning of the story, the narrator expresses that he has many stereotypes, these stereotypes keep him “blind”; of the true reality of the blind. The narrator says: “My idea of ​​blindness came from the cinema, blind people moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by guide dogs.'; This explains where the narrator originally gets his misconceptions about blind people. The narrator's wife tells him that Robert will come to visit him for the weekend. Once Robert arrives at their house, the narrator is shocked to discover that Robert does not wear dark glasses, does not carry a cane, and has a full beard. Throughout the story, certain stereotypes of the narrator are erased. However...