Blog 9

Carver

In this short story I found a couple things interesting.  I found it interesting that Robert I think that’s what his name was. I kept getting confused on if the blind guys name was Robert or not because sometimes they would say the blind man and other times Robert. Anyway the husband who name I think is Robert. I found it interesting that he was so uncomfortable that a blind man was coming to stay with them. I really found it interesting when Robert wasn’t good at describing what a cathedral looked like. So the blind man had him draw it and held his had while he did so. I thought that was neat that the old man could try to visualize what a cathedral looked like from doing that. I also liked when he told Robert to close his eyes and Robert said he knew he was in his house but he couldn’t tell he was in it. I liked this because it was an easy read but I still liked nipple Jesus better.

In this short story I didn’t like that they referred to the old man as the blind man. I thought it was rude like he didn’t deserve a name.  I also thought it was sad that the old blind mans wife died. Also said that he never got to see what she looks like. When Robert said she never would get a complement like if she did her hair different one day or if she wore make up he never knew. I know that true love isn’t on the outside but on the inside. Although I can’t help but think how hard that would be to try and he would never know.