The point of view is a first person from the main character. He has a wife who has a blind friend of whom she used to work for. The blind man is coming to visit them after losing his wife to cancer. The main character is definitely weird out by having a blind man in his home for whatever reason. It almost seems as if hes slightly prejudice, or ignorant, especially when he asks his wife about the blind man's wife, "Was his wife a negro?" The wife and the blind man kept in touch by sending tapes back and forth to each other. I believe that also added to the main characters weirdness about the man as it seems as though he is slightly jealous.
The blind man, Robert, finally arrives and they have all enjoy dinner together. The main character, Bub, points out how Robert doesn't wear dark sunglasses like blind people do and how weird his eyes were, with too much white around the pupil, darting back and forth without Robert knowing. After dinner and a few drinks, Bub's wife dozes off and Robert and Bub are left to talk.
After watching the news, a show about Cathedrals and the Middle Ages is on the TV. Bub asks Robert if he knows what a cathedral looks like and he says no. Robert asks Bub to describe one and he can't quite describe it. Robert suggests Bub get a pen and paper and they could draw one together. They do so, with Robert's hand on Bub's following every pen stroke. Towards the end Robert asks Bub to close his eyes. As they finish the drawing, Bub doesn't not open his eyes back up. At the end of the story, it almost seems as if this "opened up" Bub's eyes to the blind man's life.
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