Response to Carver "Cathedral"

        This is a short story about a man "opened" his eyes and became seeing the world by his heart instead of judging things by his eyes, which learnt from a friend of his wife, a blind man. At the beginning of the story, it's easy to read between the lines that the narrator doesn't like the blind man at all. I like the way that the writer doesn't use any specific words to express the man's dissatisfaction, but it can be felt from how the narrator described the blind man. I noticed that Carver introduced the story by "The blind man", which is not a name or anything else as if the only thing that the narrator noticed about his wife's friend is that he is blind. It also indicates his prejudice toward blind people.
        I also like the narrator's change in attitude towards the blind man after the interaction between them, although I have anticipated it when the first time I realized that the narrator disliked the blind man in the beginning. The blind man actually has clear eyes in his heart, he might can't see anything but he got everything in his mind. He told the narrator to see the world in another perspective by closing his eyes and perceiving the world by heart.