Many stories have dynamic protagonist and antagonist. Even television shows and movies often have a character that portrays a dynamic protagonist. A dynamic protagonist is someone who undergoes a change in feeling or thought throughout a certain amount of time. In Carver’s “Cathedral” the main character (name unknown) has very set and defined perspecivtvce on his wife friend Robert (who is blind). When we are introduced to the primary character he is very self- indulged and has prejudice views when talking about Robert. We first see his views in paragraph 1, he states “He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing- eye dogs. A blind man…show more content… I also got the sense that he felt threatened by the man, as though he had this connection with his wife that he didn’t have with her. The main character felt superior to Robert even before meeting him. In a comment he made before Robert arrived he states “Maybe I could take him bowling,” I said to my wife.” This comment was very snarky and was made as a way to belittle Robert and show his limits. In paragraph 13 you really start to see empathy in the main character. After discussing Roberts’s life with his wife and their short lived happiness. He states “Hearing this. I felt sorry for the blind man for a little bit.” It was short lived empathy because he then resorts back to feeling bad for the wife rather than the blind man. “A women who could go on day after day and never receive the smallest compliment from her beloved.” After Robert arrives the narrator sees that he is nothing like what he expected, he is easy going and relaxed. The readers see the epiphany in the narrator when Robert suggests driving a cathedral together so that Robert can get a better feel for what it looks like on the TV. The narrator feels uncomfortable with the idea but
