The Cathedral is about a husband who is upset that his wife is having a blind man stay at their house for awhile. The blind man is very special to the wife but the husband doesn't see how and acts really bad towards the blind man until he shows the husband how to "see" things the way he does.
1.The narrator was not looking forward to the blind mans visit because he was probably jealous of how special the blind man was to his wife and what shows about his character is that he lets people get to him easily and he mostly thinks about his self.
2.It is possible to read the experience of Robert touching the wife's face as an experience of him "seeing" her because he cant literally see so he feels her face in order to tell what she looks like. She writes poetry to get people to see how she feels on the inside instead of just basing things on the outside and when she tried to commit to suicide she just wanted people to notice her.
3.What it means to receive anothers friend is to make them feel welcome even if they aren't your favorite person or a person you may not like or care for.
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