The narrator is told by his wife that she is inviting her blind friend to spend a night at their house. His wife had just died and is a good friend of his wife and wants the blind man to come and stay with them. The narrator is not very happy about the blind man coming to visit and asks his wife where she met him and to talk more about it. He explains that he worked for him, read to him. When the blind man stops, the narrator is already judgmental and prejudiced towards the blind man. He doesn't have the slightest open mind about meeting this man with whom his wife has a great relationship. In the short story Cathedral, Raymond Carver uses metaphorical symbols, an object title, and dialect style to convey the message that you cannot judge someone you have never met and the difference between looking and seeing things in a different perspective. The wife begins to explain to her husband that a close friend of his will be staying with them. She explains to her husband how she met the blind man, but that doesn't stop him from being jealous and judgmental. “But if I had a friend, any friend, and the friend came to visit you, I would make him feel comfortable.” The wife is expressing to her husband how she wants him to understand that she would do this for him if it were her friend who was staying over. The narrator begins to have his mouth full of words before he even meets the blind man. The narrator explains to his wife in more detail that she had been married once before and was very unhappy in that relationship, so unhappy that she tried to kill herself. He stayed in touch with the blind man by sending recordings back and forth during his marriage and telling each other everything through the recordings. He held his friend... center of the paper... to draw a cathedral. The blind man places his hand over the narrator's and helps him guide the pen as his hand begins to move. He becomes more and more involved when his wife wakes up and asks him what is going on, he doesn't answer but only Robert quickly tells her that they are drawing a cathedral. The narrator gets lost in his drawing feeling freer by keeping his eyes closed as he imagines that what he just drew was really something. The ending of Cathedral doesn't even feel like an ending. It leaves you with different questions and many unanswered. The ending adds an unexpected sense of optimism to the story. Until he drew the cathedral with the blind man, he was mostly rude and judgmental, but after that he has a different perspective on life and himself. Finally he found the true sight without really looking, he scratched past the surface to find what lay inside.