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The story Cathedral is written by Raymond Carver. who was born in 1938

at Clatskanie, a logging town in Oregon.

The story starts with the explanation about a blind man (Robert) who is a

friend of the story teller’s (Bub) wife.

Bub’s wife has worked for this blind man named Robert in his office as a

secretary , but when she quit the job, they didn’t have a chance to meet

and were in contact by sending tapes to each other. Now after a very

long time Robert comes to meet her.

Robert is different kind of a blind person for Bub, maybe because for him

it is the first time to have a blind person as his guest . Robert isn’t

wearing any black glasses as usually blind people do. Mostly, Bub thinks,

blind people don’t smoke because they cannot see the smoke they exhale,

but Robert smokes like any normal person ...