Symbolism In Raymond Carver's Cathedral

Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a fiction where the writer explicitly used symbolism to explain human inhibition and lacking. Cathedral, the story, weaved an ironic situation where Robert, the blind man teaches the narrator, a man with eyesight, to truly see substance for the first time. Symbolism is an artistic and poetic style used by writers using symbolic images, characters or abstract to depict ideas, emotions, states of mind and key messages. Writer masterfully used a blind man named Robert as one of the main character of the story where blindness is symbolically used to explain the ‘power of observation’ and to expose our true ability to see things in perspective and in substance. Having sight and having insight are two different qualities