Best of Week: Seeing in "Cathedral"

This week in class we read a short story called Cathedral that had a bit of irony running through it. This irony was that the blind man in the story could see more than the man with vision. Of course the sighted man could literally see more than the blind man in the physical sense, but the blind mad had a better idea of what was going on in the world. He was better at understanding people and their emotions, and could grasp concepts that the sighted man had never even thought about. I think that this is because the blind man could not be fooled by acts that people sometimes try to put on in order to hide their emotions, such as smiling even though they are really hurting on the inside. In Cathedral, the blind man actually teaches the sighted man to look at things in a way that he didn't know he was capable of. That is also ironic, a blind man teaching a sighted man how to see. I can use this lesson from Cathedral in my everyday life by thinking things through more thoroughly and not only trusting my sense of sight to see things for me. I have to dig deeper and look beyond the physical nature of things to really understand them.