![]() ![]() He admits he might not understand poetry. She showed it to the narrator when they started dating, but he didn't care for it. ![]() He ran his hands sensitively all over her face and neck, and the experience proved profound to the wife, who is an aspiring poet and has tried to memorialize his touch. ![]() On the last day she worked there, Robert (who the narrator continues to call "the blind man") asked to touch her face and she agreed. His wife had been living on the West coast with a man she was going to marry, and found Robert's ad seeking someone to read to him. They have kept in touch by mailing tapes to one another, on which each narrated his or her life in detail. The wife had worked briefly for Robert a decade before in Seattle. As the narrator and his wife live nearby, Robert arranged to visit, and is on his way. As the story begins, the narrator is troubled by the impending visit for reasons he can't quite explain, though he attributes it to Robert's disability.Īs the narrator explains, Robert's wife had died recently and so he was visiting her family in Connecticut. The old friend, Robert, is blind, which the narrator identifies as Robert's defining characteristic. "Cathedral" is narrated by a man whose wife has invited an old friend to visit their home. ![]()
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