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The author shows differences between the two sisters by Maggie being the ordinary girl that decided to stay with the mother. Maggie did not hunger for any attention, becoming isolated within her town. Dee being a young modern girl who has traveled and explored the roots to her African heritage. Dee left home and return after her grandmother’s death. The sister that compares to the author herself would be Maggie. This would be because both Maggie and Alice Walker were shy and timid but the greatest similarity would be the flaws on disfiguration. Walker was blinded in one eye with a BB gun when she was a child. While Maggie would have burns from a fire accident. Maggie and Walker withdrew from society and deformed. “Like the burned Maggie, she …show more content…

The narrator doesn’t seem to understand what is so interesting about Robert. The wife stands up for Robert, keeping cautious at all time and caring for him. Even though the narrator seems to be uncomfortable and uneasy with Robert’s blindness, “And his being blind bothered me” (Carver, 1983, Pg. 2679). The narrator invites Robert to his home to prove to his wife that he loves her. The significance of the blind man’s lack of vision is complex; even though the blind man has a disability, Robert comprehends and sees much more than what others may ignore. Liquor and marijuana are used in the story as tension relievers. Liquor and marijuana allowed both the narrator and the blind man to become more at ease, relieving the narrator from awkwardness and relief. When Robert was offered to try cannabis for the first time, without any hesitation he tried some. Coming into a conclusion that Robert was wounded and upset from his wife’s death, and that the only solution into coping with the wife’s death would be through trying new things. The author attempts to explain at the ending when both men draw the cathedral that an inner vision can be much clearer than am actual visual. Both characters in the story come to an understanding of what the meaning can be to a cathedral (Carver,

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