Throughout the narrative we see things through the eyes of the storyteller and how he is near minded. The storyteller does non make much with his life and seems to be addicted to drugs, “ Every dark I smoked pot and stayed up every bit long as I could before I fell asleep. My married woman and I barely of all time went to bed at the same clip ” ( Carver ) . In the beginning of the narrative you can see prejudice from the storyteller when he says, “ In the films, the blind moved easy and ne’er laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye Canis familiariss ” ( Carver ) . The storyteller has an thought that blinds are incapable of working without their eyetooth. This illustration shows the storytellers ignorance and how colored he is. He besides portrays ill-mannered remarks toward Robert, “ What side of the train did you sit on? “ , and “ A unsighted adult male in my house was non something I looked frontward to ” ( Carver ) . He barely refers to Robert as Robert ; alternatively he calls him “ the blind adult male ” , and would continually mock him. The storyteller does non desire the blind adult male to remain with them and besides shows concern because he feels as if there is a physical attractive force between his married woman and the unsighted adult male. He said “ On her last twenty-four hours in the office, the blind adult male asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. She told me he touched his fingers to every portion of her face, her nose-even her cervix! ” ( Carver ) . The storyteller becomes covetous because he ca n’t develop relationships with people like his married woman.

Robert is the unsighted friend of the storyteller ‘s married woman. He is really pleasant and a sympathetic individual. Unlike the storyteller Robert seems to cognize a batch about life. Robert seems to care more about the storyteller ‘s married woman so he does. Robert seems to hold accepted his abnormalcy, and proves that he can still understand the universe every bit good as anyone else. He proves this when he jokes about the telecasting by stating “ but if I turn the Television on, and I ‘m ever turning it on, I turn on the colour set. It ‘s amusing, do n’t you believe? ” ( Carver ) . Robert ‘s physical disablement helps the storyteller go a new individual. Because of his patient Robert is capable of holding normal human dealingss.

The storyteller did non alter until the procedure of pulling the cathedral, “ Near your eyes now, the blind adult male said to me. I did it. I closed them merely like he saidaˆ¦ It was like nil else in my life up to now ” ( Carver ) . The cathedral becomes a symbol of belief and transmutation. The pulling gives the storyteller religion towards Robert and closes his eyes as if he were pulling blind, “ The blind adult male felt around over the paper. He moved the tips of the fingers over the paper, all over what I had drawn, and he noddedaˆ¦His fingers sit my fingers as my manus went over the paper. It was like nil else in my life up to now ” ( Carver ) . This is the first clip the storyteller is seen this stopping point to Robert. When Robert had told the storyteller to open his eyes he did n’t, “ My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I did n’t experience like I was indoors anything ” ( Carver ) . At that minute the storyteller had transformed dramatically. He transformed into something that he thought would ne’er hold happen. The storyteller has “ opened his eyes ” into a new sight with more significance. He has opened his close-mindedness, and begins to larn how life can be appreciated. At the really end the storyteller says “ It ‘s truly something ” , that positive energy from him symbolizes a hope and brings him a new realisation and spiritualty.

The storyteller transforms from a bias human being to a more accepting adult male. He learns to be more open-minded and more outgoing. Carver shows how Robert adapts the actual function of sightlessness, whereas the storyteller is internally unsighted because of his inability to seek and accept people who are different. I can associate this to a personal experience of mine because I used to believe I was right. Everything I do, state, or even think was right and ever right. My girlfriend had brought to my attending one twenty-four hours and fundamentally made me recognize that I was incorrect. I was blind because I was merely looking everything from my position and no 1 else ‘s. Carver ‘s narrative teaches a lesson that people need to appreciate the things given to them with unfastened Black Marias and unfastened eyes.