The Narrator In John F Kennedy's Cathedral

Cathedral was a very interesting short story. It was something that seemed to be personal to the narrator as if he had lived this situation himself. The story did not seem overstated or made up. This story could reflect anybody, because who know when one might get a long lost visitor or learning something new from a complete stranger. The narrator, a man being very prejudice against people who are different then him, especially the narrators wife’s friend Robert who is blind. In the words of John F. Kennedy, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” (Quotations about Change). The very thing that most people attempt to avoid, often at high costs to themselves, actually can become one of the most rewarding experiences and defining moments in someone’s life. His hatefulness and judgmental statue is four fold in the beginning of the story and changes by the end. With each new step in the story, the narrator learns more of the blind man and realizes more about himself. When

The narrator still thinks of ways he could possible explain this to Robert. Finally the blind man suggest pen and paper. The two begin to draw together. The blind man builds him up about the drawing and brings him to a more understanding of life. Further exhibiting his life transformation, the narrator makes a clear attempt to express the awe that had come over him in the line, “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything”. While the narrator is in a vulnerable position, demonstrated by his closed eyes, he doesn’t care; he’s a free man now, not boxed in by anything. The two continue to draw, and the narrator with his eyes closed, starts to dig deep into himself and essentially puts himself into the blind man