The character that I decided to discuss is Robert from “Cathedral”. This character interests me because Robert is an understanding, kindhearted man who really attends to others and their feelings. The choices that Robert makes that contribute to the theme of the story are to build a cathedral with the narrator’s wife and he was a confidant when the wife went through some hard times.
Some of the conflict that Robert encounters is the narrator is jealous of him because of his relationship with his wife. Some people may say that Robert’s blindness is a conflict, but Robert can see well than the narrator because the narrator is blind in other ways that make him not as compassionate as Robert.
The setting contributes to the characters development because Robert and the narrator draw the cathedral together in front of the wife while she is sleeping. The two men draw the cathedral in the married couple’s house. The narrator and Robert bond and after the cathedral is drawn the narrator sees things differently.