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Ray Carver’s character Bub, in “Cathedral,” seems irritated and sometimes hostile. His lack of self-endurance is portrayed in his initial actions. The vehemence of his prejudice is surprising. His initial anger and anxiety seem way out of proportion to the situation, as if the blind man were threatening to him somehow. Ray Carver shows his negative character in the introduction, and proceeds to change his character in the closing. In the early part of …

…learning about him and about human communication than the blind man is learning about cathedrals. Thus the narrators’ character whose life is just a mere existence becomes enlighten by one of the very things he was threatened by, a blind man. The narrator becomes touched at the end as he experiences something he never thought possible. The narrator leaves us with the feeling that maybe he will be a changed person after this night. Maybe.