Cathedral (story)
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Cathedral is a short story written by Raymond Carver in 1983. The narrator describes a relationship between his wife and a stranger maintained through audio tapes mailed back and forth. As the story begins, the stranger, a blind man, is coming to visit. The wife had not seen the man since she had worked for him ten years earlier. The narrator is resistant to the stranger's visit, but this resistance begins to break down as the two build a connection through mutual understanding in the denouement, creating an epiphany of self-knowledge for the narrator (a characteristic element in Carver's fiction).
The short story "Cathedral" is the final story in the collection Cathedral (1983).
